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Meanwhile, a team that's already well down the road the Marlins are on found themselves in the bizarre, but increasingly common, position of celebrating a Cy Young winner at the same time as entertaining trade offers for him. Pedro Martinez was named the National League's top pitcher after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Fillet O' Marlin | 11/12/1997 | See Source »

And what wit the characters do have. With the exception of Bryan W. Leach '00 as the staunchly paranoid Yossariar everyone in the cast exhudes two distinct talents: the ability to play a number of extremely different characters, and the ability to make each of them as delightfully absurd as...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Catch the Fever | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

What ensues is a drawn-out mess of a plot, involving seduction, blackmail and some randomly inserted surrealistic interludes featuring Wallace Shawn as the devil. Nothing in the health-care industry, Lumet asserts, is what it seems, and everyone is out to make a quick buck. That's all well...

Author: By Jordan I. Fox, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sidney, Baby, We Gotta Talk | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

This video, like so many of the pieces in their retrospective, proves that Fischli and Weiss are serious artists who don't take themselves too seriously--a refreshing attitude for anyone familiar with the 80s art scene. Organized by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, this immensely entertaining exhibition includes...

Author: By Scott Rothkopf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Swiss Artists Fischli and Weiss Juggle Sarcasm, Sincerity at the ICA | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

"Mutilated Lips" is a bit more successful; the ocean imagery is notably entertaining if not more enigmatic ("Mutilated lips give a kiss on the wrist/Of the worm like tips of tentacles expanding/In my mind, I'm fine, accepting only fresh brine"), as distorted vocals play off a mysterious, entrancing groove...

Author: By Peter A. Hahn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Underwater Rhythms: A Mission Impossible | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

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