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...woman in the audience seized her opportunity to flirt with the hand some star by asking Gibson if he needed a co-star in his next production...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gibson Gives Offbeat Speech | 11/13/1996 | See Source »

...through the library looking for evidence about why Byron left England in such a god-awful hurry, how the tutor Septimus may have been involved, the identity of the rent-a-hermit, and who, exactly, Ezra Chater was. As they work through these various literary-historical mysteries, they also flirt with the waspish residents of the house, Valentine and Chloe Coverly (Willis Sparks and Annika Peterson). Oh, and a mute kid wanders about the premises. Sadly, he is mostly on stage...

Author: By Joyelle H. Mcsweeney, | Title: Asexual British Scholars Run Wild in Stoppard's Uber-Witty 'Arcadia' | 9/19/1996 | See Source »

...London Philharmonia Orchestra through his signature piece on the opening night of the prestigious, snooty Salzburg Festival, not far from one of the Alpine lakes where Mahler composed the sprawling, five-movement work a century ago. Predictably, some critics did dismiss the event forthwith. "A multimillionaire's cold flirt," complained one; "no trace of Viennese charm," groused another. Austrians have long been loath to admit that anyone other than themselves can properly perform the Austro-German classics, and few would care to admit to an American's mastery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: MAD ABOUT MAHLER | 8/5/1996 | See Source »

...Crimson editorial accuses the Academic Affairs Committee (AAC) of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations of "flirt[ing] with the notion of moral relativism, or the belief that it is invalid to criticize the mores of any one culture no matter how wrong they may seem," and of employing "lazy intellectual arguments" to avoid the fact that universal truths exist. This conflation of "moral relativism" with the conceptualization of knowledge as composed of multiple perspectives illustrates a profound misunderstanding of comparative race and ethnic studies as a rigorous intellectual pursuit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO THE EDITORS | 7/16/1996 | See Source »

...movie plots, or like gifts." All this is set against the backdrop of the Crown Prince's dating Brooke Shields, protesting farmers dumping foreign rice, and "laid-off Toyota workers burn[ing] AMERICA=AIDS into the brush on the southern slope of Mount Fuji." While cultures fight, their products flirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: AMERICA, FROM RIGHT TO LEFT | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

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