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...blast back to high school and the (can we forget) problems that period of time lent us, see "Pump Up the Volume." It's guaranteed to be a good laugh, if at its own expense...

Author: By Bill Winborn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Only Slater Redeems 'Pump Up The Volume' | 10/7/1993 | See Source »

...promising, if not extraordinary, story line, and might have lent itself to lots of exciting intrigue and seduction a la "Dangerous Liaisons." Martin is trying hard to make a respectable and literary film, but the result is too plodding to sustain any dramatic tension. The denouement is obvious from the first scenes, when Newland sees the Countess at the opera. The Countess reminds Newland that as a child he had tried to kiss her behind a door: more kisses to come, one understands. Then at the post-opera ball Newland hurries to announce his engagement...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: The Age of Broken Promises | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

Like many Harvard students, I have lost a loved one to cancer. My friend died bravely, with her passion for life undimmed. Her lover lent her his shoulder on moonlit "drags" around their hillside farm. He spent sleepless nights in a shared bed, massaging her into brief respites from excruciating pain. They--and all who loved this woman--shared not necrophilia, but its antithesis, a celebration of living that continued until she could live no more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: `Love Story' is Nothing to Laugh About | 9/21/1993 | See Source »

Nearly two years after the start of official peace talks, first in Madrid and later in Washington, deadlocked negotiations lent special urgency to the back-channel talks. Immediately after meeting Kriah, Hirschfeld called a high- ranking friend, Yossi Beilin, Deputy Foreign Minister and an aggressive dove. Beilin was interested but noncommittal. Nevertheless, he extended what Pundak describes as a "very long leash" -- in effect, carte blanche to explore all possibilities and report back at every stage of the contacts. Ever since the Labor Party regained power last year, Israel had begun opening the process. In fact, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swimming the Oslo Channel | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...future. Not that Loren Christensen would agree; the gang enforcement officer with the Portland police maintains that his town has "tolerance for different life-styles, as long as they're liberal life-styles. There's no tolerance for skinheads." Yet rival gangs of bald men with tattoos have now lent this chamomile-and-bean-spro ut metropolis a Mad Max edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skinhead Against Skinhead | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

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