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...mourn the wounding of the soul, narrowing of the theological conception of sin into a knife of moralism, and the powers of death disguised as Truth which are walking the Yard in some quarters in these days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mourning Intolerance and 'Wounding of the Soul' | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

...long time ago, a young man bundled himself up in a weatherproof leather coat, shouldered a crude wooden backpack, grabbed a knife, a bow and an ax, and headed into the Tyrolean Alps, which run between Austria and Italy. Up high in the mountains, at about 3,200 m (10,500 ft.), something happened -- an accident, a violent blow -- that took his life and left him to be swallowed by the Similaun Glacier. There he lay, locked in a crevasse, buried, frozen, forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 4,000-Year-Old Man | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

Police found Schley with severe knife wounds in a neighbor's home at 16 Mildred Hamilton Place, near Central Square, said Lt. Walter L. Boyle, commanding officer of detectives for the Cambridge Police Department...

Author: By Yea-lin Chiang, | Title: Cambridge Resident Indicted for Murder | 10/4/1991 | See Source »

...simultaneous action instead of symphonic arcs of speechifying. Its characters are impeccably dressed, drop- dead cool and not very happy. The plot, like a music video, features casual nudity, simulated sex and arrestingly etched violence: a man soaked in blood from eye sockets to navel, a woman with a knife at her throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MTV Drama | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...York shows provide classic entertainment. Prom Queens is a way-too-familiar pastiche of '50s high school intrigue and sci-fi frissons; it plays like Little Shop of Grease. Hasselfree's The Edge of the Knife, with a soap-opera setting, gets most of its humor from the audience; participants are asked to guess the murderer's identity and motive. A bit higher up the food chain, Forever Plaid uses the singers' plangent harmonics to camouflage a thin book. And you need a doctorate in Broadway shows and lore to get all the jokes in the new edition of Forbidden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Come to The Cabaret! | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

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