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...some respects, the comedy of musical beds and drugs and knockabout buffoonery seems almost made for MTV. The scene of two young men playing mixed doubles with their interchangeable girlfriends would not seem strange to the kids in Bret Easton Ellis novels, who fall into bed with anyone at all, scarcely stopping to ascertain identity, or even sex. Titania's sudden passion for ass-headed Bottom seems almost natural in the age of Ecstasy, when someone who takes a tab of MDMA is liable to open her heart to the first person she sees. And Pyramus and Thisbe, wooing each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Midsummer Night's Dream: the Sequel | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

...most of them, return was a financial and political chimera. Against their wishes and traditions, home became the U.S. Initially, their neighbors regarded them, in Bret Harte's words, as the "Heathen Chinee," an enduring caricature of cheap labor and social isolation, living in towns within cities, operating behind the impenetrable facades of restaurants and laundries. It was decades before the hostility softened to tolerance and, in recent years, to appreciation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Full Circle | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

Junior forward Nick D'Onofrio finished off a Ramy Rajballie shot 28:02 into the contest for a 1-0 Harvard lead that lasted until Bruin Bret Buggeln netted the ball with 11:41 remaining in the game. The 1-1 deadlock sent the game into overtime...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Booters Collect in OT; Tie Brown, 2-2 | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

Rison and federal prison officials maintain that Martin had broken federal regulations against prisoners' being employed and receiving outside compensation. Defense Attorney George Stoll argued at a hearing last month that Martin "isn't Bret Harte or somebody who is uniquely describing the California experience. He's a federal prisoner, and he's moved around from time to time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: They Put Him in Writer's Block | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...Ferris wheel peeks over the roof into the stadium, and a roller coaster screams by third base. Though the infield grass is plastic, the place is handsome. "Almost too nice," says the pitcher Bret Saberhagen. "It doesn't feel like spring training." In the name of civic pride and the interest of land development, tin and wood are being traded everywhere for aluminum and concrete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Place for Bright Starts | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

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