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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...woven of two strands, one of them boldly colored, the other rather gray and recessive. Besides Scissorhands, the first skein includes Ed Wood, Depp's serenely obsessive portrait of the grade-Z moviemaker and cross-dresser with a special affection for angora sweaters; Don Juan De Marco, where he plays a schizophrenic who escapes from dismal reality by impersonating, with sinuous delicacy, an enviably proficient Latin lover; and Benny & Joon, in which he's an illiterate and nearly speechless waif with a genius for mime. What is perhaps most striking about these characterizations is their fundamental sobriety, disciplined intensity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEPP CHARGE | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

Though I very much respect the desire of Mr. Joshua Kwan to "make heads (or) tails of the abortion debate"--and wish many more people were so earnest about looking at the issue--I felt compelled to respond to several assertions made in his Feb. 22 op-ed piece about finding the "middle ground among extremes." "In America," says Kwan, "I am free to choose any definition oflife I please." Perhaps, but I certainly hope I am not free to act on any definition of life I please. A great many American citizens once held that people of darker skin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Defense of Pro-Lifers' Definitiveness | 3/1/1997 | See Source »

Spears, a Cambridge resident of 32 years, was nominated by Mary Samp, wife of longtime election commissioner Ed Samp and chair of the Ward Seven Republican Committee...

Author: By Sadie H. Sanchez, | Title: Spears Selected For Commission | 2/27/1997 | See Source »

First-year men's heavyweight coach Ed Kloman said he was not worried by Castellano's short illness and downplayed the danger posed by pollution in the Charles...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: Two First-Year Rowers Get Blood Infection | 2/26/1997 | See Source »

Nowhere was this more evident than during the defending Eastern champion Ed Mosley's match at 158 pounds. This overtime thriller could have gone either way, and a victory would have caused a six point swing and given the Crimson...

Author: By Joseph K. Goodwin, | Title: Wrestlers Drop Heartbreaker | 2/25/1997 | See Source »

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