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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suddenly distasteful to him. A recent widower, he misreads his young lunch date's interest, and within an hour he is mentally married to a woman he had previously hardly remembered. This would be the perfect antidote to his distressing solitude: "she could brighten my life, he thinks, and lighten my home, all those rooms with their splendid views that seem to have darkened," and he wonders about what redecoration schemes she will choose. She is engaged, however, and Dr. Zamora's visions crumble. In his ensuing despondent mood, he finally faces long-ignored memories of his unsavory past...

Author: By Tatiana Gonzalez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: More Maude: Geriatric Vixens | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...suddenly distasteful to him. A recent widower, he misreads his young lunch date's interest, and within an hour he is mentally married to a woman he had previously hardly remembered. This would be the perfect antidote to his distressing solitude: "she could brighten my life, he thinks, and lighten my home, all those rooms with their splendid views that seem to have darkened," and he wonders about what redecoration schemes she will choose. She is engaged, however, and Dr. Zamora's visions crumble. In his ensuing despondent mood, he finally faces long-ignored memories of his unsavory past...

Author: By Tatiana Gonzalez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: More Maud: Geriatric Vixens | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...LADIES, EITHER Disney recently asked Elton John and Tim Rice to update Aida, the opera about an Egyptian's doomed love for an Ethiopian slave. They did more than just lighten the tone. While Verdi has Egyptians making garlands for soldiers, John and Rice have the Spice Girls singing about panties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advances In Opera | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

However, Harvard students rarely turn their noses up at any opportunity to be gently sanctimonious and condescending to their peers. Therefore, the fact that 99 percent of the Harvard student body could have been in the same position as the virus victims does not lighten the load of the moral bandwagon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTBOARD | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...feel that it is my purpose to lighten thespirit even on a tiny level with humor," she said."Carry the joy you feel right now, at 20, throughthe rest of your life. Don't ever lose thatsmile...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Goldie Meets Hasty: Hawn Takes Home Pudding Pot | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

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