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...Keep your rosaries off my ovaries." So read one of the many buttons I spied on the backpack of a passing pedestrian. The button was surrounded by others, many of which supported a women's right to Cohoes an abortion (although they used more interesting phraseology...

Author: By David L. Bosco, | Title: The Dying Debate | 4/14/1994 | See Source »

...combined commotion caused by both projectswill mean extra work controlling traffic in theYard. Some pedestrian routes will be shifted toaccommodate construction, Leviton said, andcontractors will be encouraged not to park theirtrucks in crowded areas...

Author: By Emily Carrier, | Title: Construction in Yard Drowns Out the Birds | 4/5/1994 | See Source »

...Moreau's appeal. A lot of it has to do with her unique voice, husky, slightly raspy, but nevertheless smooth, like honey shot through with smoke. To hear that voice speaking French is something of a revelation. Even in claptrap like "La Femme Nikita," her distinctive voice elevated the pedestrian dialogue about a woman's beauty to the realm of poetry. Her voice cracks words open to reveal their intrinsic poetry and beauty, and when she sings, she is dangerously enchanging. Is it any wonder that Jim, Jules and Albert find her irresistible...

Author: By Joel VILLASENOR Ruiz, | Title: `Jules and Jim' a Jewel | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

There's a particularly revealing moment in the otherwise pedestrian movie Shadowlands, where a young fan, on meeting the author C.S. Lewis, whispers in hushed awe, "Are you him?" The youngster found his idol to be suitably impressive...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Authors And Acolytes | 3/8/1994 | See Source »

...Thomas Cruise Mapother (yes, the pedestrian last name had to go when our boy got to Hollywood) has reached film superstardom, playing Ivy Leaguers in several movies and reaching what the Hasty Pudding has proclaimed the "epitome of manhood." (Might the third accomplishment be related to the second? In any case, coming from the cross-dressing center of campus, this is quite a feat.) Tom Cruise, teenage heartthrob/film icon humbly started his acting career at a public high school in Glen Ridge, N.J. with a part in "Godspell...

Author: By Deborah E. Kopald, | Title: All Life Is a Boat, And Tom's Cruisin' | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

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