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...very confident that we've done it with honesty and integrity and we regret that the other side has not," said Cavellini, the Cambridge taxi driver and fervent rent control supporter...

Author: By Terry H. Lanson, | Title: Surreal Fight Over Rent Control Will be Settled in a Boston Court | 3/4/1994 | See Source »

Stojko and Candeloro provided the color in the competition: theirs should develop into a rich and fervent rivalry. Stojko is not so handsome as his eponym or so graceful. But could the Pelvis jump like a cat? Stojko can. And he shares Presley's taste for loud music and louder costumes. But at the rink he is determined. "I'm very hungry for what I want," he says. "Nothing's going to stand in my way." His parents, Steve and Irene, emigrated from Eastern Europe to Ontario in the mid-1950s. Maybe his flair has been inherited; they named their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FIGURE SKATING: High Flyers | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...ceases in a split second, and a timid flute melody drifts up into the air like Bambi frightening away Godzilla. The choreography achieves an apt explication of abstract concepts when the three singers illustrate de Sade's case against equality. The "General Copulation" number, however, is a bit too fervent...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: A Crew of Lunatics | 12/16/1993 | See Source »

While adding exotic new creeds, the tide of immigration since the 1960s has also increased the variegation within Christianity. Millions of Hispanics have brought a florid, fervent Latin sensibility into U.S. Catholicism, challenging a church hierarchy dominated by the stolid sons and grandsons of Irish immigrants, who now are struggling to recruit Hispanic priests. The bishops also face Pentecostal or Baptist soul winners who successfully target Spanish- speaking neighborhoods. Meanwhile, Koreans have had a notable impact within - Protestantism with their evangelistic zeal and religious traditionalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Nation Under Gods | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

...Fervent, foreboding music and feverish operatic voices accompany the progress of a black gondola, adorned with the head of dragon. It weaves though a dark network of water-bound caves, and soon we behold a dungeon--thousands of hands reaching out from behind iron gridding--and a hulk-sized executioner with a burnt head a la Freddy Kruger...

Author: By Katherine C. Raff, | Title: Three Musketeers. One Bad Movie. | 11/18/1993 | See Source »

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