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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shakespeare's play is ultimately a comedy, and the cast clearly presents it as such. Harvard sophomore Lucian Wu, as the foppish Frenchman, Dr. Caius, and Frank Timmerman, as the effeminate Slender, bring much-needed comic relief to the bathetic love scenes between Page's daughter Anne (Joanne Lessner) and Fenton (Kenneth Goodwin). Slender and Caius, vain suitors for Anne's heart, hide in the foliage when the two lovers arrive on the scene. Timmeran with his engaging bug-eyed innocence lisps his way through his performance, while Wu resorts to more sword-flinging bravura...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Merry Anniversary | 3/17/1988 | See Source »

...autobiography, Simon recalls her father's efforts to thwart her own intellectual curiosity. Here she writes with scarcely disguised bitterness of one promising Gonzaga daughter: "Her impressive knowledge of Virgil, every line, didn't matter, nor did her command of Greek, and so what if she could explain the propositions of Euclid? Her vocation was marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Godfathers a Renaissance Tapestry: the Gonzaga of Mantua | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

Despite the great anti-Marcos outburst of two years ago, the country continues juggling standards of ethics and behavior, seemingly oblivious to inconsistency. While President Cory, as she is widely called, emanates saintliness from Malacanang, her teenage daughter Kristina, shoulders bared, hawks beauty soap in a television commercial. In a TV talent contest, a demurely dressed ten-year-old girl belts out a tune from Cabaret: "I used to have a girlfriend known as Elsie/ With whom I shared four sordid rooms in Chelsea./ She wasn't what you'd call a blushing flower./ As a matter of fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Where Life Is Balanced on Stilts | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...post-game press conferences usually have all the flair of a revival. RPI Coach Mike Addesa, flanked by his son and daughter, presides over a haggard band of reporters and a dozen smiling Engineer groupies...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: A Gloomy Revival | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...cared too much, probably not in the right way. He bought an expensive pitching machine just to help his daughter train. But he brought us spring training in January, and for that I thank...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: The Grapefruit League | 3/5/1988 | See Source »

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