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...centers not much interested in them dooms them. That this should happen a second time in the history of the Semitic Museum, so soon after it was exhumed from its previous shabby interment, should be an embarrassment to the present president and dean. What motivated them to condone the boundless zeal and willfulness of one faculty member...

Author: By Martin Peretz, | Title: The Sabotage of The Semitic Museum | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...general trend of the past year is that freshmen 'carry elections,"' Bragg said. "Their vote is the swing vote. They're freshmen, they have new ideas and boundless enthusiasm. This year they acted on the enthusiasm by setting forth their own candidates...

Author: By Asya M. Muchnick, | Title: BSA Elects Bragg As New President | 4/29/1993 | See Source »

...thumbs up!"), are still prized by movie marketers. But in the scramble to fill up ads with gushy testimonials -- especially for films that haven't opened yet or have drawn tepid reviews -- publicists are turning increasingly to a cadre of lesser lights, mostly from radio and TV, with seemingly boundless enthusiasms. Susan Granger, who reviews for Connecticut's WICC radio and is now syndicated on about 100 stations, has lured moviegoers with passionate quotes for everything from Consenting Adults ("spine-tingling, disturbing, sexy, seductive!") to Forever Young ("a heart grabber that lifts the spirit"). Joanna Langfield, whose radio feature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attack of The Blurbmeisters | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...Thomas and George (Jefferson and Washington, respectively) had listened to the propaganda, then the American Revolution would never have occurred. There would not have been a United States of America. Maybe out of sheer confusion and boundless energy I should just hop the pond and topple John Major's little government. How would Paul and Ringo like that...

Author: By Brad EDWARD White, | Title: Talking About a Revolution | 12/9/1992 | See Source »

...haunts Cohn in his dying days, then says the Kaddish over his corpse, ending with a blasphemous but heartfelt "son of a bitch"). But for Kushner's polemical purposes, Cohn's greatest evil was his willingness to tolerate, in fact promote, discrimination against gays even as he secretly enjoyed boundless gay sex. He is embodied with robust humor and seductive malevolence by Kushner and actor Ron Leibman, who make Cohn a villain-one- loves-to-hate, like Richard III but slipperier and funnier. In the best passage, Cohn asserts he is not a gay man at all but a heterosexual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Celebrating Gay Anger | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

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