Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thelma and Louise" at 10 p.m. What would it belike to be pushed over the edge of a cliff? Thisfilm takes the metaphor built into such a questionand turns it into a plot...
...play was written centuries ago, but its timeliness (gay love, violently thwarted) will be thrust rudely at you like a piece of ACT-UP literature: fine if you're a piece of ACT-UP literature, but not necessarily if you're a Christopher Marlowe play. But first, the Cliff Notes. Edward II has a particular affection for a commoner named Gaveston, and makes him his companion, much to the chagrin of his queen Isabella, his brother, his court, and his kingdom in general. With the ambitious militarist Mortimer, Isabella jealously plots Gaveston's banishment and eventual murder. Edward II winds...
...such a fragile, precarious act; a plane is the tiniest speck hurling through a great expanse of sky, ever aware that it shouldn't be there. In the back of my mind, I always think that the dream could end. Like the coyote who walks, nonchalantly, off the cliff--and realizes, a few steps later, that he went too far. That's the moment, of course, when he starts to fall...
...been there a long time. And it is also a very old story when the most wholesome moral intentions (such as the American desire to feed starving Somali children) lead down a road into nightmares of entanglement and unintended consequences. The best, brightest American policy thinking went off a cliff in Vietnam, for example...
Harvard goalkeeping put the finishing touches on the Crimson victory. Junior Jeb Miller (Freed: "his best game all season") and junior Cliff Chen shut down the MIT offense with five saves apiece...