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...Lyric Stage's production may not have quite as much polish as you could wish for, but the spirited acting and the barren stage lend themselves to a certain charm. The play is acted out against Joe levendusky's economical stage design of four gum trees and an anonymous white mass that might be an anthill or a ship's sail...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Art's Redemptive Powers Triumph in Our Country's Good | 5/1/1992 | See Source »

Perhaps. But there are plenty of gyms around campus where a reader can more effectively lend her unique perspective--Adams and Dunster come to mind--without causing so much consternation. Because it boasts the broadest selection and highest quality of equipment this side of the river, the MAC should cater only to the serious and successful, not the incompetent and insane...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Take Back the MAC | 4/21/1992 | See Source »

...debt. This amounts to $200 billion a year, hardly any of which will ever fill an orphan's tummy or dry a poor widow's tear. Instead, most of it flows directly to a handful of institutions and relatively well-heeled folks who were clever enough to lend the government money at profitable rates. To these fortunate individuals (nearly 15% of whom are not even American citizens), there is indeed a U.S. government, or at least someone who disburses those dividend checks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let Them Eat Tax Forms | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

Rifkin is using beef as a metaphor for all that has gone rotten in the modern world, wrongs that he attributes to a metaphysical loss of humans' | sacred relationship to nature. And cattle, because of their prominent role in ancient mythology and their haunting presence in prehistoric pictographs, lend themselves well to this moralistic exercise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beef Against . . . Beef | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

...inside the park; they must get their hand stamped at the turnstile, walk a few yards to the nearest hotel bar and drown their rancor there. The Pinocchio and Star Tours rides, among others, provide French dialogue, but visitors who have no English will miss the verbal nuances that lend the park its impish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Voila! Disney Invades Europe. Will the French Resist? | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

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