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...with terrible teeth and an air of doom, seemed to inhabit a flinching shadow world. He dodged through the '30s packing a revolver and hugging the walls of dark corridors. A paranoid smudge, the mandarins thought, whose amorphous bulk concealed a damaged child given to imagining grandiose conspiracies, and messiah roles for himself. Poor Chambers was brutally and dismissively psychoanalyzed, more so than Hiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRED ASTAIRE MEETS THE SAD-SACK DOSTOYEVSKIAN PUDGE | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

...sexual frankness of his art. From the moment he affectionately tells the audience that they remind him of a bed of pubic hair, to when he masturbates with a piece of Valencia orange stuck in his mouth, to the climactic moment when he orgasms to Handel's "Messiah," Miller is a paragon of eros, humor and theatricality packed into one vital, often naked body. Switching effortlessly from one performance mode to another, Miller at one moment works the audience better than any stand-up comedian, then dives into his own illusionary world the next, and performs equally well in both...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Out of the Closet, Endlessly Rocking at the BCA Festival | 9/26/1996 | See Source »

Berry, heralded after his arrival at Harvard five years ago as the "Mealtime Messiah," led HDS to several awards for food service quality. Berry himself won the prestigious Silver Plate Award for his management...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger, | Title: First Choice for HDS Director Turns Job Down | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

Berry himself won the national Silver Plate Award as the outstanding food-services professional at colleges and universities. In his five years at Harvard, he became known as the "Mealtime Messiah" among students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Condenzio, Four Others In Running to Head HDS | 7/9/1996 | See Source »

Origins of the Mealtime Messiah...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hi Ho! Hi Ho! It's off to work he goes! | 6/5/1996 | See Source »

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