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...annual Hasty Pudding Theatricals production to see gut-wrenching drama or incisive social commentary," Grunwald wrote on this page three years ago. "You don't go to see professional acting, professional singing, professional dancing. You don't go to see a plot. You go to the Pudding show to see just that--a show. A spectacle. Big, hairy guys wearing skimpy dresses, disguising their husky voices, wiggling their butts, behaving like goofballs, inverting the social order...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: Cross-Dressing With Boris | 2/22/1995 | See Source »

...campaign-style rally to celebrate the halfway mark of their 100-day "Contract With America" legislative blitz. Meanwhile, President Clinton and House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt met with reporters to underscore concerns about the potential impact of GOP legislation on poor children. Gephardt said that GOP reform plans would gut the federal school lunch program. At the GOP rally, Speaker Newt Gingrich warned beaming supporters that the going is getting tougher: the remaining "Contract" provisions, which include welfare reform, term limits, tax relief, eliminating affirmative action laws and reforming the legal system, will spark heated congressional battles. On the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOP HALFWAY TO THE FINISH LINE | 2/21/1995 | See Source »

...lure of ethnographic exoticism." The characters are Maori, dispossessed chieftains and princesses now confined to gray city slums. "The film is a social tragedy, observed in love and pain," Corliss says. "'By the end, 'Once Were Warriors' has left an ache in your heart, a hole in your gut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES . . . "ONCE WERE WARRIORS" | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

...heroes are psychopaths who kill scores of innocent people and get away with it, riding off into the sunset to commit more acts of ultraviolence, the term coined in the before-its-time A Clockwork Orange. But while Orange aimed to sicken the viewer with its scenes of random gut-check violence, the 90s-style film revels...

Author: By Charles C. Savage, | Title: A Society Unraveling in Film | 2/11/1995 | See Source »

Moore Professor of Biological AnthropologyIrven DeVore, who teaches Science B-29 along withAssistant Professor of Anthropology Marc D.Hauser, said that many students "erroneouslyperceive it as a gut...

Author: By Amita M. Shukla, | Title: Ec 10 Is Most Popular Course | 2/11/1995 | See Source »

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