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...drag you through a tortured description of all the machines we tried to use (i.e., broke), but I will issue this warning: unless you've always wondered what it feels like to be electrocuted, do not stand up on the electric foot vibrator. The sensation will be similar to that experienced by the little boy of electrical fence fame in "Jurassic Park...

Author: By Ariela Migdall, | Title: Holy Cannoli! Ricotta bliss, via MBTA | 10/21/1993 | See Source »

KARL HENDRICKS TRIO Sings About Misery and Women CD/LP (Fiasco) Karl Hendricks' sadnesses are our reward. Miserable he may be, but he's not about to abandon his calling: that of writing spiffily memorable rock tunes, enough of them to drag us out of our grunge-induced lethargy up to the heights of Punk Rock Simplicity Mountain (which is where Nirvana thought they were leading us in the first place, right?). Most of Karl's songs have a crunchy college-rock beat (like Superchunk) though a few of the best, like "Romantic Stories from the War," are slow dissections...

Author: By Stephen L. Burt, | Title: Love and Misery | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

...Garden of Scorpions" does drag towards the end, especially as the plot never gets any clearer...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Garden of Scorpions' a Generic 1950s Romance, Russian-Style | 10/7/1993 | See Source »

...Harvard, having dragged its heels to thispoint, is likely to drag its heels in the nextstage," says Zevin...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: Divestment Dead, Not Forgotten | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

...movies, TV shows and city streets. According to Parker V. Page, president of the Children's Television Resource and Education Center in San Francisco, preliminary research suggests that such games make children "more aggressive or more tolerant of aggression." That jibes with the experience of parents who will drag their kids away from a kick-boxing video game only to watch them start kick-boxing with each other in the backyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Violent for Kids? | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

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