Word: betweeners
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College students are notorious for nodding off in class and hibernating on weekends. Phil Simon, a 20-year-old junior at the University of Oregon in Eugene, is not unusual. During the week, he rises anytime between 7:30 a.m. and 11, depending on his classes, and retires sometime between...
Because so few studies have been done, scientists cannot make definitive comparisons between American sleep patterns and those of other countries. But many researchers believe that all industrialized nations are experiencing sleep-deprivation problems, though usually not as serious as those in the U.S. "The Europeans don't have 24...
MASTERPIECES OF JAPANESE SCREEN PAINTING by Miyeko Murase (Braziller; $150). The aphorism "Poetry is painting, painting is mute poetry" is exemplified in these 37 exquisite screens painted between the 15th and 19th centuries. A boldly abstract rendering of blue irises from the Edo period is as striking and modern as...
AMISH: THE ART OF THE QUILT by Robert Hughes (Knopf/Callaway; $100). These spare yet sumptuous squares reflect the cardinal virtues of their Amish makers: simplicity and practicality. Made between 1870 and 1950 in Lancaster County, Pa., they foreshadowed the geometric art of the '60s and the minimalism that followed. And...
Goldberg and Spacek perform their good deeds without undue condescension, and Dwight Schultz is really fine as Spacek's husband, teetering between propriety and principle. But no actor's art can disguise the simplemindedness of this tract or the stodginess with which it is dramatized. What are audiences to learn...