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Every neurosis known to man and Freud is shared by the two dysfunctional writers who hurtle through the obstaclecourse plot of Wonder Boys. Grady Tripp, who narrates the novel, has produced no new books in the seven years that he has taught creative writing at a small Pittsburgh college. Instead...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Chabon's Wonder Boys Romps Through the Absurd | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

Astrov's obsession is just one aspect of the play's preoccupation with time. His medical training encourages him to see the world as his patient. The prognosis is grim: Russia's forests are being stripped, its fauna decimated, its rivers defiled. But in Vanya's eyes, time is static...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHEKHOV'S VANYA ON EVERY STREET | 3/13/1995 | See Source »

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Centerfor the Visual Arts. 24 Quincy St. 495-4700."Arizona Dream" at 3 and 7:30 p.m. Tickets $6.50.(See March 10 Listing) Two films in the Women inJapanese Films series: "Street of Shame" at 7 p.m."Odd Obsession" at 9 p.m. Tickets $5 for students...

Author: By Kelly T. Yee, | Title: At Harvard | 3/9/1995 | See Source »

Sen. Alfonse D'Amato will head the steering committee for Bob Dole's presidential campaign. The New York senator's move is expected to trigger a wave of endorsements for Dole by Gov. George Pataki and other key Republicans in the state. That may give the Senate majority leader a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK IS DOLE COUNTRY | 3/7/1995 | See Source »

Kitaj's growing ambition, now fully realized, was to re-create something that was supposed to have been expelled from modern art: history painting. It's as though his own sense of expatriation compelled him toward this gap, not as a witness to history but as a collector and combiner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORY'S BAD DREAMS | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

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