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...unchanging set for Look Back in Anger is a bare and squalid apartment, and designer Zach Sung utilizes his space will. He manages to convey a sense of depressing poverty yet entertain the eye. Angry news headlines pasted over the bed (such as "Trust No One" and "Expect To Be Disappointed") and ashtrays full of cigarette butts make the place look lived-in, while a perfectly dreadful late "50s color scheme renders the ugly interpersonal relations in the play all the uglier. And little touches like vinyl-covered kitchen chairs and a screen behind which Jimmy can be seen playing...

Author: By Katherine C. Raff, | Title: ANGRY's Young Cast Looks Good | 11/10/1994 | See Source »

...since the transcript is the only document which purports to represent a student's individual academic achievement--and numbers and symbols are used to convey such achievement more comprehensive information is crucial...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: CUE Proposal Is Necessary | 11/9/1994 | See Source »

...Cracked Rear View are a bit too smooth -- the blues are in the band's soul, and that would have been better reflected by music with a rawer, less processed feel. But on every song, Rucker's vocals are marvelously commanding. Low, rough and charismatic, his voice can convey depths of feeling that would do a true bluesman proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Kind of Blues | 11/7/1994 | See Source »

European masters endeavored to create visions of sensual paradise concurrent with the political utopianism of the age by arraying dabs of pastel to convey gardens, canals and the like while subject, style, and color coaxed and relaxed viewers into bubble-bath bliss. American painters such as Walter Farndon, N.A., took a while to learn of the trends emanating from the Romantic school, but were not long to follow suit...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: Yankee Impressed | 11/3/1994 | See Source »

...visits in some cases to win them over. In the end an impressive 79% of the sample group of 4,369 took part. There were built-in safeguards: some questions were asked more than once in different ways, ensuring that only a motivated liar could easily convey misinformation. Of the major sex surveys to date, says sociologist Ira Reiss of the University of Minnesota, this was "probably the best thought out and has the broadest coverage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEHAVIOR: But Should We Believe It? | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

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