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Rules, as Carol Cohen Becker, remembers vividly, were on occasion broken. She spent a year out of the classroom as a result of a particular amorous encounter that did not go over well at Fay House. "It was ludicrous," Becker says, "We were seen as directionless people along for the...
Movie executives this year are feeling as if they have just had a close encounter of the first kind with Jaws. March and April were the worst months for movie attendance in a decade. So far in 1981, admissions have fallen approximately 15% below last year's lackluster performance...
In 1940 Sergeant Mitterrand was shot in the chest, then captured by the Germans near Verdun. He felt his imprisonment in a Nazi P.O.W. camp was his "first real encounter with other men." He recalls: "At noon the Germans distributed tureens of rutabaga soup and loaves of bread. At first...
Through several days of house hunting they reminisce and fantasize about their love lives. These incidents include everything from casual encounters (both successful and not) to rapes. It is impossible to determine which ones are true, which are entirely fanciful and which are a little of both. Some are ironic...
"That's the kind of problem that really faces an organization," adds Hazard. "What's astonishing to me is to encounter the profound lack of self-confidence and self-worth in people who, according to their own criteria, have achieved success. Why are these people so nervous? These...