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From this moment on, the play elaborates the blindingly original premise that modern life would appear pretty silly if described in Elizabethan English. When Constance, who soon slips into iambic pentameter like all the other characters, describes someone as a creep and Desdemona is mystified, she says absent-mindedly: "Creep--it's colloquial for 'base and noisome knave...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Goodnight Squanders Talent Dreaming of a Better Script | 5/4/1995 | See Source »

...holding small children in their arms, planted themselves across from the police station and stared mutely. Students just let out of school arrived and stood in clusters six deep. Some climbed into the beds of pickup trucks to get a better view. "Bring him out," they chanted. "Kill the creep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIMOTHY MCVEIGH AND HIS RIGHT-WING ASSOCIATES: WHO ARE THEY? | 5/1/1995 | See Source »

Those words, "a job," really creep me out. Imean, I'm no stranger to the workforce: I'veworked at pretty much every ice cream parlor inthe Boston area at one time or another, and I'veassisted a strange Willy Wonka-esque financialwizard during my years at Harvard. But these jobswere rarely that time-consuming, and my paychecksonly went towards expenses of my own devising: mycrack habit, expensive hair products, etc. Ihaven't been paying my tuition bills, you see. Itake things like heat and electricity for granted:some guy shows up every few months and putzesaround my family's basement...

Author: By Jake S. Kreilkamp, | Title: PIPELINE | 4/20/1995 | See Source »

...Their 1992 debut album, Ooooooohhh ... on the TLC Tip, sold almost 3 million copies but was instantly forgettable. CrazySexyCool features slinky singing, bouncy beats and grabby rap interludes, and the vocals are stronger and the melodies more piquant than those on the first album. Several songs stand out, including Creep, a slightly jazzy dance number, and the delicately saucy Red Light Special, a love song written by Babyface (who has composed recent hits for Boyz II Men and Madonna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIPLE JUMP | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

...debut album, Ooooooohhh ... on the TLC Tip, sold almost 3 million copies, but it was instantly forgettable. CrazySexyCool features slinky singing, bouncy beats and grabby rap interludes, and the vocals are stronger and the melodies more piquant than those on the first album. Several songs stand out, including Creep, a funky, slightly jazzy dance number, and the delicately saucy Red Light Special, a love song written by the ubiquitous Babyface (who has composed recent hits for Boyz II Men and Madonna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Triple Jump | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

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