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...lost my primary election 15 days ago because I didn't hit the streets," Graham said, noting that she had spent the summer working to pass a bill requiring child care in new developments. "I made the terrible mistake of letting my community drift apart...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Graham Keeps Running Despite Loss | 10/1/1988 | See Source »

Whether confronting the deep past -- his bourgeois childhood as the son of a stern Lutheran minister and dutifully repressed mother -- or his adult past, where wives, mistresses and children drift almost anonymously through the shadows of his theaters and sound stages, Bergman rarely strikes the customary autobiographical notes of nostalgia and the tranquil acceptance of fate. To him, middle-class morality is a cloak for madness, family life an invitation to distraction and guilt. Neither helps one come to grips with decay, eroticism, violence -- those irrational torments by which the unseen world insists on its presence in our lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Memory's Screen THE MAGIC LANTERN | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

Certainly there is no drift in the spring rolls, crispy outside but set apart by the flavor and freshness of the mix within. Shrimp dominates, but pork and mushroom are effective supports. The little rolls rush through various Chinese flavors like an overture, as though the appetizer was designed to appetize by example. The only (minor) flaw was an excess of grease on one of the three trials...

Author: By Robert Nadeau, | Title: OUT TO LUNCH | 9/20/1988 | See Source »

Certainly there is no drift in the spring rolls, crispy outside but set apart by the flavor and freshness of the mix within. Shrimp dominates, but pork and mushroom are effective supports. The little rolls rush through various Chinese flavors like an overture, as though the appetizer was designed to appetize by example. The only (minor) flaw was an excess of grease on one of the three trials...

Author: By Robert Nadeau, | Title: OUT TO LUNCH | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

Certainly there is no drift in the spring rolls, crispy outside but set apart by the flavor and freshness of the mix within. Shrimp dominates, but pork and mushroom are effective supports. The little rolls rush through various Chinese flavors like an overture, as though the appetizer was designed to appetize by example. The only (minor) flaw was an excess of grease on one of the three trials...

Author: By Robert Nadeau, | Title: The Painted Dish | 9/16/1988 | See Source »

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