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...doesn't matter to Bronfman: he hears his own voice sayin' it's all right. In this respect, Edgar Jr. is like the hero of one of his own movies. There is a scene in The Border where Jack Nicholson is asked why he is trying to accomplish a feat most people think is crazy. His reply: "I guess I gotta feel good about something I do." --Reported by Bernard Baumohl/New York, Patrick E. Cole and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles and Edward W. Desmond/Tokyo

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHATEVER EDGAR BRONFMAN WANTS | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

...provide a continuous accompaniment to the play. The music, composed by Greene, is vital to the modulation of emotion in these scenes, from anxiety to mystery to fury. Amazingly, even in the small space, the band never becomes intrusive and never competes with the actors for attention, a feat rarely achieved even in student productions of musicals and operas...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Risky `Motel Blues' Speaks (Often Silently) of Ire | 4/14/1995 | See Source »

...under-paid housekeeper who has little happiness in her life besides pride in her daughter. Although her Maine accent is imperfect, Bates delivers Dolores' obnoxious, caustic lines with perfect subtlety. Shifting from a tired fifty year-old to a spritely thirty year-old every other scene is not a feat many actors can accomplish, but Bates skillfully ages Dolores' body movements and psyche...

Author: By Theodore K. Gideonse, | Title: Script Suffocates Dolores | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

Boehner shows no sign of backing down. To the contrary, his Thursday Group is busy forming new coalitions and keeping its old ones intact. And that is no small feat. A Thursday Group lobbyist has been chosen to head the lobbying effort for each of the main provisions in the contract, ranging from tort reform to tax relief. In turn, the chairperson puts together an elaborate coalition of other lobbying groups. The biggest so far is the tax-relief coalition, led by Motley, which has more than 100 members and six task forces to handle policy, communications, vote counting, grass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE THURSDAY REGULARS | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

Number three: Piss on the statue of JohnHarvard. "As appealing as the thought of baringall for the sake of tradition is to me, I think Ican make it through the next four years withoutit," says Duerte. As a woman, she is skepticalabout the feasibility of this feat. "I mean,unless you're going to be really creative...shemuses...

Author: By Ann D. Schiff, | Title: harvardian superstitions | 3/23/1995 | See Source »

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