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...equal time, Moloney has O'Connor sing The Foggy Dew; she represents "the young mother of Ireland" whose lover is killed in the 1916 Easter Uprising. In the lamentation Love Is Teasin', Faithfull's crone contralto makes the phrase "What cannot be cured, love,/ Must be endured, love" sound like hard wisdom delivered from a deathbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FROM EMERALD TO GOLD | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

...campaign, hopes were not too high. Key players were lost to graduation, such as Eric "End Zone" Crone. The Crimson wrote, "Harvard fans can expect a lot of close scoring games this year...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: The Odyssey of a Coach and a Program | 11/19/1993 | See Source »

...mysterious prophetess, Crone Accustomed Toherface (Jeremy Nye) warns the kingdom (in appropriate iambic pentameter) that evil lies ahead. But the king, who has inexplicably become a Hindu, pays no heed. (The Pudding show can be awfully random...

Author: By John A. Cloud and Beth L. Pinsker, S | Title: AN EVENING WITH KNIGHTS IN SHINING DRAG | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

...doubt reassure the middle-aged woman who has been suffering $ away in silence, wondering if she isn't, perhaps, losing it. But for the woman who's feeling just fine, thank you, who isn't planning to start either a "second adulthood" or a new life as a "crone" (Greer's term), the new menopause genre will read like the ghastly tracts on menstruation that used to be inflicted on girls in the 1950s. Puberty then, like menopause now, was a portal labeled ABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO ENTER HERE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chronicling The Change | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

...plot of The Frog Prince is familiar to any child who has grown up with The Brothers Grimm. A prince (Jeremy Dawson), soon to marry his beloved, strays onto the land of a hideous crone (Michelle Holdt). When he refuses to offer her his fresh-picked flowers, she turns him into a frog...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Telling Fairy Tales | 4/13/1990 | See Source »

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