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The Eliot House production of Dracula is so cliche-ridden one might almost believe it to be intentionally ridiculous, were it not for the earnest seriousness of the actors. This version of the Dracula story only loosely follows the events chronicled in the Bram Stoker novel. Rather, it is a...

Author: By Jeannette A. Vargas, | Title: A Bloodless Dracula | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

No European nation lost proportionately more of its sons and daughters to the U.S. than Ireland: in all, some 4,250,000 from 1820 to 1920. Native-born Americans sniffed at these Gaels -- made desperate by the potato famine that devastated their homeland in the 1840s -- as filthy, bad-tempered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Migration | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

For those of us whose careers depend upon the successful reading of entrails, the recent vote for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was a career-challenging, once-in-a-lifetime, baptism-by-fire, (place your cliche here) experience. The escalating demagoguery and the reduction of a substantive issue...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Reading the NAFTA Tea Leaves | 11/19/1993 | See Source »

It would also have been cliche and formulaic,the stuff of schoolboy football stories likeStover at Yale.

Author: By Justin R.P. Ingress, | Title: Loss Marks Restic's Last Home Game | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

So far, so good. Tolins has defined the attitudinal chasm separating gays, who think of themselves as a people with a history and culture, and kindly disposed heterosexuals who think of gays as individual mistakes of nature. But in making the family Jewish, he clutters the argument with a lot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What If Baby Grows Up Gay? | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

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