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The music selection managed to be tasteful, despite the focus on now cliche classical favorites. After all, when a piece is more recognized by the name of the movie it was featured in--the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey or Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra?--the professional group has a...

Author: By Cara New, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Concert Review: Harvard's Musical Ambassador Visits Roxbury | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

It's a cliche that jocks and cheerleaders rule, but it is largely true. While others plod through high school, they glide: their exploits celebrated in pep rallies and recorded in the school paper and in trophy cases. "The jocks and the cheerleaders, yes, have the most clout," says Blake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Littleton Massacre: A Curse Of Cliques | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

The Premise The film centers around a fisherman (David Strathairn) left high and dry by a traumatizing sea accident. When a lounge singer (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) and her daughter (Vanessa Martinez) show up in town, the three meet and their lives forever change. In a touching moment of cliche, they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

I'M THE LAST ONE TO MAKE A MOUNTAIN out of a molehill, but something's really been getting on my nerves at FM lately. Every time I turn around, there's another editor, designer or photographer employing a useless cliche or euphemism to get a point across. Guys, it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

But Winterson has the talent to create such compelling, and at times mesmerizing, narrative worlds. In "Disappearance I," for example, she envisions a future in which the right to sleep has been legislated away. The narrator's occupation? A Dreamer, literally someone who dreams for everyone else. Yet seemingly mundane...

Author: By Gregory J. Wrenn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bloody, Beautiful Book | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

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