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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Buffalo Tom's music, for those who haven't heard their college-rock hit "Velvet Roof," is meat and potatoes for the mosh-starved. You'll think that you might have heard their music before, and you probably have--they sound like blisteringly-loud late Replacements, filled out with plenty of requisite feedback. There isn't much new about Buffalo Tom, but their grasp of what's old makes for nothing less than perfect grunge...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: Buffalo Tom: Moshing with the Middle-Aged Crowd | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...Shelly Levene, an overworked, unconfident shadow of a "great" salesman ten years past his prime. Lemmon simpers and croons to customers, selling his soul to regain an irretrievable glory. In the end, he makes a good feast for Roma when the sleazy real estate sales company that puts a roof over both their heads crucifies...

Author: By P. GREGORY Maravilla, | Title: NOTES FROM LIFE'S UNDERBELLY: David Mamet's `Glengarry Glen Ross' | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...Some of us [at CBS] thought it would be a good thing to give the two candidates exposure simultaneously," said Stanton. "Nobody had had both candidates under the same roof before...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Three-Way Debate Format Flawed | 10/14/1992 | See Source »

Miller's performance was intensely physical: He snapped his suspenders incessantly, or gripped frenziedly at his mouth when describing his first kiss, speaking raptly of the meeting of tongues, the taste of gums, the feel of the roof of the mouth. And then, under the glare of a red light, he stripped off his clothes, trying to erase the disgust and guilt instilled in him as a child. However, this act was slightly spoiled by our haunting certainly that he might not have been so ready to bare his childhood "shame" if he had not had such a slender, youthful...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Tim Miller Bares Queer Body In Original Stage Performance | 10/8/1992 | See Source »

...clutched our flashlights for comfort and turned on a battery operated radio to listen to the simulcast of the television news. We listened to the winds that sounded like a freight train approaching--as ceramic barrel tiles blew off the roof, trees cracked and crashed and debris flew everywhere...

Author: By Mary E. Rocha, | Title: Surviving Andrew | 9/18/1992 | See Source »

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