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...still has plenty of punch left as Matt Murley (17, 33) leads a trio of top wingers along with Brad Tapper (20, 20) and Pete Gardiner (17, 21) They will be expected to shoulder even more of the load on a team weak at center...

Author: By Jennie L. Sullivan and Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Around the Men | 10/27/1999 | See Source »

Steve, a junior center, is Harvard's star. He has led the team in scoring each of the past two seasons and will be expected to provide the offensive punch again...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Lewis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Gets Some Moores | 10/27/1999 | See Source »

...better than boy kisses--and it's best if at least one girl is straight. Straight actors playing gay (as in Eric McCormack, who plays lawyer Will Truman) go over better than openly gay actors (DeGeneres), and so on. Thus America is apparently ready for implicit fellatio as a punch line or for a foxy hetero babe's experimentation, while actual gay characters such as Will--though enjoying increasingly substantial roles--still have libido restrictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: TV's Coming-Out Party | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

There are nearly 30 gay or lesbian characters in prime time (depending on how you count and categorize them). Most are post-Ellen additions, and they are no longer limited to bit roles and punch lines (though TNT dropped a stereotypically gay "character" from World Championship Wrestling after receiving complaints about gay bashing). ABC's Oh Grow Up and Wasteland feature gay leads with actual, if tentative, love lives (Ford, a lawyer who's just left his marriage, and Russell, a closeted soap actor). Action has two gay regulars; one is Bobby G., a ruthless studio head whose massive male...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: TV's Coming-Out Party | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...Bridge, William Bolcom's operatic version of Miller's 1955 play about love and death on the Brooklyn waterfront. The Lyric Opera of Chicago bet big on Bolcom, giving his American-style grand opera a production worthy of Aida, and the horse paid off: View packs the theatrical punch of a double boilermaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doo-Wop And Knife Fights | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

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