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...mock article says that Yale administrators are considering moving the university out of New Haven and perhaps creating a "Euro-Yale...

Author: By Jennifer L. Burns, | Title: Campus Watch | 4/16/1994 | See Source »

...Chairs, for example, an old couple at a lighthouse fill a room with chairs to prepare for an orator who turns out to speak only by growling. Most of Ionesco's works were funnier than Beckett's, more verbal, richer in farcical action and far less despairing. In Soprano, mock-philosophical discussion shaded into nonsense. The Lesson, a portrait of a megalomaniacal teacher, reflected dark satire of the powerful. Rhinoceros blended those themes with a manic physical portrait of a city where everyone turns into a rampaging beast. This eccentric mix of humor and horror, of prattle and inarticulate profundity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Fascism, Fury, Fear and Farce | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

...immediacy of the film is impressive; as Pauline Kael wrote in her review, the film almsot seems to play itself out in a medieval present. At first there is a temptation to mock the seriousness of the film and the self-importance of the Knight's quest, which at times appears like a remnant of 1950s existentialist philosophy; but the images in "The Seventh Seal" are so hypnotically charged that one is pulled in and held fast...

Author: By Joel VILLASENOR Ruiz, | Title: Bergman Receives Seal of Approval | 3/24/1994 | See Source »

...wandered the city dressed in 1870 clothes. For In the Name of the Father, he lost a substantial amount of weight. In preparation for the scene where his character is battered into making a confession, he stayed awake for three nights, during which director Sheridan arranged to have him mock- interrogated by actual policemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Dashing Daniel | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

...Farrakhan: To me, it is highly improper in that you make a mockery over people. So why should we mock them? Why should we goad them into a behavior that is so easy for them to do harm to black people? And that's why I rebuked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Louis Farrakhan: They Suck the Life From You | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

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