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...Desire," the last film Pedro Almodovar made before his international hit "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown", stands at a pivotal point in the Spanish director's repetoire. It combines the technical sheen of his later films with the kinky irreverence of his earlier work...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Pedro Almodovar Offers A Funny, Flaming 'Desire' | 2/25/1993 | See Source »

Cambridge city officials received more than $160,000 last year for conference attendance and training, according to a recent breakdown produced by the city's budget office...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: On The Road Again | 2/17/1993 | See Source »

...food, throws a plateful on the ground: "Eat that, white bitch!" She has a child by a black laborer (Dennis Haysbert) who walks out on her. She moves in with a pair of religious-fanatic spinsters who try to take away her baby. Later, bitter and near a breakdown, she is thrown into a mental institution full of raving loonies out of The Snake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florid Fiction, Bruising Fact | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

Scott said details of Harvard's actual holdingsare not as important. "The breakdown of stocksheld is not particularly interesting because itchanges all the time," he said. "At least I don'tthink it is particularly interesting...

Author: By Evan P. Cucci, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alumnus Charges Deficit Fraud | 1/25/1993 | See Source »

...living. It makes Fat City a set mostly of frets and flourishes. Even the perkiest number, the irresistibly Beatleesque Round of Blues, hedges its best hopes ("I see lights in a fat city/ I feel love again") by wondering if this buoyancy heralds "a new breakthrough" or "an old breakdown." And in the soft, scary Monopoly, about a departed lover, Colvin flays herself: "I'd rather do anything/ Than write this song for you." She warns herself not to soften the blow with irony: "Retreating behind these lines/ The same old tongue in cheek/ Regretting that both are mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frets And Flourishes | 1/18/1993 | See Source »

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