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...need a break from Indian liquid fare, you can just grab a Pepsi and feel right at home. It can make you wonder, with all the similarity, weather the 20-hour-long trip was really worth...

Author: By Rajath Shourie, | Title: Just Twenty Hours To New Delhi | 3/23/1994 | See Source »

Alas, not all of White Oak's New York offerings attained this standard. Mark Morris' Mosaic and United was particularly disappointing because it was Morris who choreographed several of the distinctive works that gave the group its early repertory. Morris can usually be counted on to grab an audience right away and never let go. When he errs, it's by going over the top. Mosaic is a rarity for him; it is plain dull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANCE: Thoroughly Modern Misha | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

Cornell, on the other hand, is a clutch-and-grab team. The players don't posses the same skills as the Crimson players do, so they will try to knock Harvard off its game with a rough style of play...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: ECAC Tournament Quarterfinals Tonight | 3/11/1994 | See Source »

...mounting fear of violence in the Big Easy is no idle perception. The murder count last year hit a record 389, a 36% jump over 1992. Other serious crime is causing alarm as it becomes more brazen and frequent: smash-and-grab assaults on motorists at stoplights, robberies of French Quarter tourists. Bob Tucker, a computer-services executive, shot an intruder who jumped him in the driveway of his fenced home as he left for work one morning. Says Tucker: "Crime is out of control and everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down in the Big Queasy | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...disgusted by the stomach-churning pap that passes for "film criticism" these days that you are tempted to grab the nearest assault rifle (well, not as near with the passage of the new Brady Bill), go out, and engage in the wanton massacre of Janet Maslin, Vincent Canby and Stanley Kauffman. Especially Stanley Kauffman, who seems to have an unerring talent of giving thumbs up to the worst movies in the business. (If you don't believe me, consider the fact that he really liked "The Muppet Christmas Carol." I went to see "The Muppet Christmas Carol" With a little...

Author: By Jeremy A. Dauber, | Title: So, You Wanna Be a Critic? | 2/26/1994 | See Source »

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