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...Blanche Dubois, played stupendously by Vivien Leigh, and Stella (Kim Hunter). Instead of a doting housewife and her lonely sister, we see full-bodied emotional an sexual characters. We understand the intensity of the battle over stella that happens between Blanche and Stella's husband, Stanley (played with a feverish pitch by Marlon Brando) because we are allowed to see the sexual attachment between Stella and Stanley...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Steamy "streetcar" Goes all the Way | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

...should the rest of us, who have focused feverish attention on this story even when it required a passing knowledge of the bylaws of the U.S. Olympic Committee, have to suffer? A country lives by its myths, and seldom has there been such an opportunity for an epic to be played out in an international arena as this skate-off between Harding and Kerrigan at the Winter Games. Lately, the public has been denied closure in other morality tales: neither Bobbitt will serve time; California may never be able to cobble together a jury sufficiently unaffected by victim empathy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Eye: Now for the Skate-Off | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

...event reached a feverish pitch when the Big Masher broke the local record. As the machine began to pull I unconsciously rose to my feet. When it lurched forward pulling the weight, I lost it altogether...

Author: By John C. Ausiello, | Title: Two Confessions | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

More than 2,200 high school students are in Cambridge this weekend for the 40th annual Harvard Model United Nations simulation--a four-day event that represents the culmination of a semester of class research or extracurricular work for delegates and nine months of feverish preparation for 130 Harvard organizers...

Author: By Emily Carrier, | Title: Model UN Holds 40th Conference | 12/11/1993 | 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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