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...VOYAGE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE, by Dominick Argento. Encouraging news for American composers. This 1976 work, one of the finest American operas ever, gets a new production from the Chicago Lyric Opera. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 29, 1990 | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

...wife's comeuppance. In Buried Alive (USA) another scheming housewife (Jennifer Jason Leigh) conspires with her doctor lover to bump off her husband with poison. Again the plan goes awry: she gives him too small a dose, and the authorities only think he's dead. What follows is Poe- etic justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Dark Deeds, Dangerous Blonds | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

...that The Times printed a Yale student's defense of her senior thesis under the headline "Donald Duck, in Fact, Can Teach Students a Lot," Stephen King spoke at Harvard and was compared by Richard C. Marius, director of the Expository Writing program, to Henry James and Edgar Allan Poe...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: I Can't Stand That Attitude | 9/19/1989 | See Source »

...would claim that Harvard students idolize all assigned reading indiscriminately. We have a tendency to treat Poe more seriously than Stephen King, even if we like King better. A strangely convoluted snob appeal here permits us to submerge our own tastes, at least in class, so that what we like and what we don't like become hopelessly confused. When that happens it's hard for education to be very meaningful...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: I Can't Stand That Attitude | 9/19/1989 | See Source »

...life. There is a rough chronology, but more free association, as one would find in a psychiatric session. Narrated in the first person, the book reads like a record of therapy. Jeremy's speech therapist Sandra is addressed in apostrophe and hangs over much of the book like some Poe-esque confidant...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: Despite Glimmers of Wit, A Novel That's Overdone | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

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