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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hoffmann wants to be certain that we don't miss a thing. He accomplishes this with a restrained flourish. When Godfather Drosselmeir fixes the broken clock, "it came back to life and made everything happy by whirring and striking and singing merrily," Fritz receives a hobby horse gallops around the table a few times and "on dismounting he remarked that the beast was rather wild, but it didn't matter, he's break him in." As the Nutcracker's hussars battle the mice the dynamics of the struggle are special: the guns fire and "Marie saw sugar balls landing...

Author: By T. NICHOLAS Dawidoff, | Title: Mixed Nuts... On The Stage... And On The Shelf | 12/15/1984 | See Source »

...perhaps gloomily reminiscent of Nathaniel West's Miss Lonely hearts, but Crocket says, "You don't get jaded. You just look at those kids. They're as sad as they were 24 years ago-they're as sad as they were 100 years...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Christmas on the Globe | 12/14/1984 | See Source »

...already have two or three," says The Rev, Peter J. Gomes, Minister in Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals. Padre, you're welcome to come borrow I he Crimson's I oeb volumes anytime And advice for Santa: "I suppose I'd give everybody a copy of Miss Manners's new book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Secret Files | 12/14/1984 | See Source »

...unfortunately, the Globe editors, the New Right, and--saddest of all--the Supreme Court, miss the point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Creche Encroachment | 12/13/1984 | See Source »

...naturalist drama which explores individual loneliness in the context of class and convention, Miss Julie is a moving, if at times predictable, piece of drama. Yet because the cast and director bring out the play's moral ambiguities on a small, moderated scale, they manage to overcome virtually all external impediments. As Strindberg goes, it is definitely a gamble well worth taking...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: Servants Of Truth and Passion | 12/6/1984 | See Source »

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