Writer

Margaret Y. Han

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'Miss Manners' Plugs Etiquette Biz

Judith Martin, also known as "Miss Manners," delivered a sharp-witted speech last night to a packed audience at the Kennedy


Hello, Mrs. Robinson

"When you talk about this later--and you will please be kind." from Tea and Sympathy, 1953 H AD ROBERT ANDERSON


Slow Dawn

L AST WEEK Time magazine reported on the indictment of 76-year-old nursery school owner Virginia McMartin for the sexual abuse


Tunnel to Freedom?

T HE LYRICAL FILM El Norte is a sobering reminder of the flip side of the American Dream: the harsh


Outside In

C LOTHES DO NOT make people look good, people make clothes look good But people can also make clothes--and themselves--look


Loaded Terms

U P UNTIL THE SIXTIES Americans viewed public discussion of ethnicity with distaste; according to historian Theodore H. White '38,


Trivialities

L ASSITER IS A SLOW-MOTION Magnum P.I., in tweeds. This molasses-paced fashion adventure, about an American jewel thief in 1930's


Exploiting the Exploiters

THE TRAGIC DEATH of Playboy's 1980 Playmate Dorothy Stratten (masterfully depicted by Bob Fosse in his latest movie Star 80


A Post-Feminist Letter to Men

M EN HAVE ALWAYS been good at talking to each other about women; likewise, women have always been able to