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Another strategy entails finding anyone who is even remotely connected to your course or department (for example, a particularly haggard graduate student). If caught (and you won't be), explain that you were `confused...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: DARTBOARD | 2/12/1994 | See Source »

...thief who is guilty of every social crime but the one he's charged with. The drama here is eventually located not in the young man's battle against the Brits but in the coming to terms with his father, and thus his place in his family and his haggard country. It's a jailbird love story of two men bound by blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tidings of Job | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

...wins his wife in a pinochle game with her father. The father bets his daughter's hand; Joseph bets a cold blast of air from his meat locker. After a small protest, Catherine Falconetti (Tracey Ullman, the overblown British comedienne) marries him, becomes pregnant, and falls victim to her haggard mother-in-law's Old World superstitions. Her first miscarried child seems to possess a chicken's wings. Why? Because she walked into the butcher's shop while Joseph slaughtered a turkey, of course. We know that something other than a quaint portrait of 1940s Little Italy is taking form...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Heaven Help It | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

Many students actually admitted, under conditions of anonymity, that they send messages to other Harvard students, and sometimes even to people who live in the same house. Usually, these far-gone types check their mail way too often, acquire a haggard, frenzied air, and find themselves drifting through the Science Center at the most ungodly hours. Sound like fun? If you're a procrastinator who's outgrown "Cosmopolitan" or "Blades of Steel," go over and open an account. Within a few short weeks, this could...

Author: By Ariela Migdall, | Title: In the Groovy Train | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

...referred to as "the new Bogart. He's not the most attractive, smooth-faced guy in the world, yet he has this sexuality. He really is the Southwestern Bogart." Which is why the character closest to Jones may be Woodrow Call in the Lonesome Dove mini-series: a haggard Texan who loves horses and leads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Damn,He's Good | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

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