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...GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE. In this 1986 animated feature, now revived for a new generation, a mouse chanteuse performs the first tentative striptease in a Disney cartoon. Otherwise, there's not much momentous in this story of some adorable rodents and a peg-legged bat named Fidgit -- just some clever cartoonists having a holiday on mice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Mar. 9, 1992 | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

Michael Psellos: The Clever Humanist--by John Duffy, proffessor of classics, University of Maryland. Boylston Hall Auditorium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard | 3/5/1992 | See Source »

Canosa utilizes some particularly clever anachronisms--Jeans uses a cordless phone at one point when being called upon by Miss Julie's father--even though it is still approximately the 1800s...

Author: By Sucharita Mulpuru, | Title: Sincere Miss Julie Makes a Powerful Statement | 2/27/1992 | See Source »

...Clever and amusing as these lyrics may be, Ugly Kid Joe should stop underestimating themselves. These five friendly and engaging musicians have a lot offer the music world. Even now, the band needs and deserves a bigger arena than clubs such as T.T.'s can offer...

Author: By Rita L. Berardino, | Title: Ugly Kids, Beautiful Music | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

...reader finishes A Landing on the Sun feeling almost sucker-punched, albeit gently. The story allows Jessel to see their achievement of happiness, but the reader ultimately realizes the impossibility of happiness in Jessel's own life. The light touch of Frayn's clever humor makes Jessel's tragedy more poignant...

Author: By Daniel N. Halpern, | Title: Straight to the Heart of the Sun | 2/6/1992 | See Source »

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