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Beginning with random fragments out of the lives of these teens, Araki creates a clear picture of who they are and establishes an immediate sympathy between the audience and the characters...
...girl who meet on a train, falls flat, Corliss feels. "This two-character talkfest, a kind of Eric Rohmer meets Harry meets Sally, wins points for daring to be a love story," says Corliss. But the banter "often plays like desperate showing-off."BOOKS . . . A PRIVATE VIEW (Random House; 242 pages; $23): This wise and funny novel is about love between two people with very little in common: a woman filled with flaky California-isms (adept as she is in Vibrasound, Tantric Massage, Reflexology, Color Counseling) and a decent and honest -- but bland -- man. The book, says Time critic Martha...
House masters originally supported a plan that would have reduced maximum group size to eight, in an effort to make house composition more random. The change would promote diversity by preventing 18 football players, 18 computer hackers, or 18 pre-meds from landing in a single house and upsetting house balance...
House masters in November endorsed a plan that would have reduced the maximum blocking size to eight as a step towards making the composition of the houses more random...
...there was Earth, barely discernible against the background of stars, an image that inspired the title of The Pale Blue Dot (Random House; 429 pages; $35), the ninth book by astronomer and planetary scientist Carl Sagan. Voyager's homeward glance was his idea, and the sight was humbling. "There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits," he writes, "than this distant image of our tiny world." To say nothing of the folly of wars, which from space would appear to be little more than "the squabbles of mites on a plum...