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...plain old American-Irish English" and for political significance in the story of a Belfast punk (Paul Ronan) obsessed by the grit and grace of Jimmy Cagney. It finds none of the above, lost as it is in a muddle of moralizing and attitudinizing. But it shares a potent theme with the season's cannier off-Broadway ventures: that star worship is a virus, carried by the popular media and infecting anyone who has a little talent and big gaudy dreams. The difference is that, in many other shows, the Warner Bros. star whom the hero might dream of being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Les Formidables | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

...album, Universal Mother, starts not a little acrimoniously with the grinding, pulsating Fire on Babylon, in which the singer again attacks her late mother. "She took my father from my life/ took my sister and brothers, oh," O'Connor howls. She also bares her fangs in a potent, political rap number called Famine: "I see the Irish/ As a race like a child/ that got bashed in the face." In addition to these harsh tracks, however, Universal Mother does have many gentle moments, including a delicate acoustic version of the late grunge rocker Kurt Cobain's composition All Apologies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Singing to a Silent Harp | 11/7/1994 | See Source »

Brown's offense is also a potent one, characteristically strong. Last year, Brown had averaged a monstrous 50.5 points and 557.6 yards per game...

Author: By Brian R. Rice, | Title: Peaking Gridders to Tackle Brown Today | 11/5/1994 | See Source »

...basis of Harvard's success this year is its potent offense. Harvard's attack is a multi-dimensional one, with the Crimson averaging over 200 yards per game in the air and over 120 on the ground...

Author: By Brian R. Rice, | Title: Peaking Gridders to Tackle Brown Today | 11/5/1994 | See Source »

Brown effectively shut down the potent Cornell running game to 76 yards and capitalized on Big Red turnovers to solidify...

Author: By W. STEPHEN Venable, | Title: Gridders To Battle Mirror Image | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

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