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Is it really the history that attracts people to Massachusetts? Or could it be the proximity to the beaches and mountains? Seattle and San Francisco have beaches and mountains, too, and people there aren't nearly as neurotic. true, Boston has a flourishing intellectual and artistic life, but if you...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: Saying Goodbye to Beantown | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

A sophisticated evaluation of Bernstein's music is also missing from Leonard Bernstein. Burton usually cannot find his own words to describe a piece, so most of the critical burden is borne by contemporary reviewers whom the author quotes without qualification. To describe Bernstein's neurotic, distasteful 1983 opera A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Lenny, With Lenny Missing | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

A common background often characterizes these families. Parents are immigrants from overseas, many times intellectuals who escaped through academic visas. Their children are given terms like "driven" and "ambitious" to describe the result of the often neurotic tendencies of parents.

Author: By Raymond W. Liu, | Title: An Asian Distaste for Politics | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

Held loosely together by the letters to Esme, the story unfolds clumsily in the three disparate parts. First, Cora falls in love with the attentive Southerner Ray but is just too darn neurotic to make it work. They try to save their relationship by nursing her dying friend William through...

Author: By Sarah M. Rose, | Title: Fisher Lands a Whale Of a Deluded Comic Novel | 4/14/1994 | See Source »

However, lest we concentrate too heavily on the asexuality of this film, it must be noted that femme fatales needn't be sexual superpowers. Great objects of male desire are invariably so much more than that. They are multi-dimensional, interesting women who flaunt their own indentities and resist being...

Author: By Emilie L. Kao, | Title: 'Four Weddings' Is Not Worth Celebrating | 3/24/1994 | See Source »

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