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Its characters are stylized and predictable, from her distant father and elegant mother to the Swedish personal trainer named Greta. Her parents have all the standard trappings of wealth: mansion in Connecticut, Florida beach house, Aspen condo. Even the psychological background created through carefully spliced-in childhood flashbacks is contrived...

Author: By Jerome L. Martin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Floundering Pre-Meds Swim, Clumsily | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

Last Saturday night, having been misdirected by several liquor store clerks and having run through a labyrinth of dark streets, I arrived out of breath of at the Boston Conservatory of Music for a concert I was determined not to miss. Jumping up the steps, I asked a guard behind...

Author: By Jerome L. Martin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Soundtrack for a Titian | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

Classical drama requires elegant balance. So, for that matter, does farce. One way or another, then, it makes sense that this story began and now ends with Monica. The cartoon versions of her that dominated the past year--child-victim, stalker-vamp--threatened to reappear on Saturday, when we got...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Next For Bill and Hillary Clinton? | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

With Shakespeare in Love, we find Fiennes as the title character searching for a muse to stir up his creative juices. Paltrow is just the ticket as she employs the ol' Victor/Victoria trick to gender bend her way onto the stage and into Fiennes' heart. The adultery angle doesn't...

Author: By Judy P. Tsai, | Title: CINE MANIC | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

The all-Swede lineup attracted a pleasant mix of students and amused adults to the Roxy. The sizeable Swedish contingent was easy to identify: they all had fair hair, elegant black glasses and knew all the words. Some patriots even waved small blue-and-yellow Swedish flags.

Author: By Joshua Derman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: OH, HOW SWEDE IT IS | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

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