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With election day fast approaching, Cambridge City Council hopefuls say their year-long campaign efforts are finally reaching a crescendo...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Cambridge City Council Race: A Voter's Guide to the Candidates | 10/30/1993 | See Source »

Yvonne Roemer faces the same challenge, spiced with a pinch of rape trauma. She glides effortlessly from coquettish flirting to ranting bloodlust. She grapples with the most rhetorical speech in the play, and succeeds in varying her tone without reducing the dramatic crescendo...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, | Title: The Speedy Rise and Fall of Fuente Ovejuna | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

...deadpan artists whose short films are featured in the Harvard Film Archive series Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright seem to be able to laugh at anything. If there is one feature that unites the shorts, it is a strange mixture of comedy and horror that reaches its crescendo in the final film. Two Mikes starts dark, turns black and gets blacker...

Author: By Caralee E. Caplan, | Title: Short Films With Teeth | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

With election day fast approaching, Cambridge City Council hopefuls say their yearlong campaign efforts are finally reaching a crescendo...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Non-Incumbent Council Candidates Plan Big Changes | 10/6/1993 | See Source »

Four showgirls stride onto the Radio City Music Hall stage to play a fanfare. It is fitting that one of the strumpets with trumpets is chewing gum, for she and her sisters are introducing a supremely brassy babe. Crescendo! Curtain! Giant cotton-swab clouds! And there, radiant on a throne, sits the Arch Angel of Pop and Schlock. The message is clear: Bette Midler has lived up to her self-promotion. She is divine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bette, Better, Best | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

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