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Perils lurk for the male thriller writer giddy enough to cast a woman as the hero of a biff-bam adventure series. Just how hard can she bop the bad guys without coming off as an ape in drag? And how much can she fiddle with makeup or fret over runny panty hose before a reader of either sex decides that yeah, yeah, too much verisimilitude is unreal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THIS DICK IS A JANE | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

...review randomization. In addition, Lewis will then release data on the breakdown of undergraduate houses by race, concentration and other categories to the Committee on House Life (COHL). There will be a special committee established in 1998 to review the data and assess the effects of randomization on the makeup of the houses at the request of the COHL...

Author: By Aaron R. Cohen, | Title: Randomized Housing Lottery Procedure Enters Second Year | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...today, then we have reached a bittersweet out-come. On the one hand, the survival of Adams as an institution would be a great thing, since it serves an important function in promoting the arts within the Harvard community. On the other, if the institution lives regardless of the makeup of the students who live there, then this turn of events proves an unfortunate truth that is indicative of a larger problem at Harvard. Often, it seems that the traditions of the many hallowed institutions that make up Harvard are more important than the students who comprise these institutions...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: The Paradox of Tradition | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...even more fertile brain. When making movies he covers it with a studio-issue baseball cap, but certain formal occasions call for cagier camouflage. On Oscar night 1994, when Schindler's List won seven awards (including Best Picture and Best Director) and Jurassic Park took three others, a makeup artist sprayed Spielberg's bald spot with hair-colored paint. No problem, until half an hour into the post-Oscar party, by which time the star of the evening had absently patted his head a few times, then stroked his face. "My wife Kate rushed over," he recalls, "and said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: PETER PAN GROWS UP BUT CAN HE STILL FLY? | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...Asian from the eyes up," and he has also embraced the role model of his father Earl, who was the first black to play baseball in the Big Eight (for Kansas State). Now Tiger seems to be saying that if acknowledging the totality of his genetic and cultural makeup is difficult for many Americans, they will just have to try harder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACE: I'M JUST WHO I AM | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

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