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...Haydn's hidin' but Bach is back. Roll over, Beethoven and mosey on, Mozart, (though Handel can handle it) cause Crye is the rage--(Giuseppe Verdi is just Joe Green...

Author: By Andrea Shen, | Title: The Metaphysical Writing on the Wall (and Desks) | 12/17/1985 | See Source »

...recall whether events happened to them or to someone they knew. Moreover, Shepard characters rarely speak lyrically; he keeps their language as mud-bound as their lives. Plummer is allowed poetically disjointed speeches only because her character is brain damaged. That infirmity also leads to harrowing scenes of reptilian rage at the brother who tries to help her, pathetic palsy as she learns to walk again, and a confused seduction of her husband's loyal brother (Aidan Quinn) when he comes to make peace. The entire cast, especially Quinn, is solid. Plummer, like the play, is unforgettable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Achieving a Vision of Order a Lie of the Mind | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

...LACK OF A BETTER term let's call this mental copout "Issue Separation Disease" (ISD, since acronyms seem all the rage these days). A brief description of it might read something like "a tendency to reduce the U.S./Soviet rivalry to dozens of discrete issue areas amenable to separate discussion and resolution." ISD strikes Western liberals particularly hard. In fact, they appear to be the only affected group, and only when they discuss foreign policy. Here are just a few of the easily-diagnosed symptoms...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Wallowing in the Mud | 12/10/1985 | See Source »

...sleekly elegant against the odds of a double-life and a harrowing operation-room job, while her husbands are both puffy-faced, big-nosed, blustering and apopleptic. Between his son's radical politics and a six-million-franc lawsuit he's filed, Philippe is in a constant, hopeless rage; while Vincent, with a bouffant hairdo that looks like Jerry Lee Lewis gone awry is forever out-of-control over his out-of-control students...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: A Testimony Against Men | 11/8/1985 | See Source »

...zoning battles rage and concerns over Harvard's encroachment into nearby neighborhoods grow, activists are demanding more responsiveness from the University...

Author: By Joseph Menn, | Title: Here's What City Politicos Talk About | 11/4/1985 | See Source »

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