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Look what I was reduced to! Can't we at least open Winthrop, for God's sake? Enough with this subsidization of Harvard Square businesses! Enough with this nickel-and-diming on a $29,000 tuition! Enough of the %$*&#ing Border...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Gimme Some Good Grubbin' | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

...criminal are natural enemies. Keats believes Moses put a bullet in his head; Moses thinks Keats betrayed him for the sake of a cheap bust. But as they drive around the desert, dodging machine-gun fire and stepping into plotholes of delirious implausibility, the two men get into tough-guy bonding at its wettest. Moses has no girlfriend, and Keats' has an ulterior agenda. After a while the standard gross-out talk of action movies--the gay-baiting gags and threats of fellatio--makes for an odd subtext. All these swaggering men who say they hate each other are really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE NEXT WORST THING | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

...Bush's 1988 "Read my lips, no new taxes" pledge earned him the White House. Clinton's 1992 offering of a middle-class tax break all but assured his victory. Dole's promise of a 15% tax cut is unachievable. Its only purpose is to garner votes. For the sake of American politics, let's hope that this ploy doesn't work. RAJU GOYAL Phoenix, Arizona Via E-mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 9, 1996 | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...affecting hours!), incandescent stars (a ragged but potent revival of Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman with Paul Scofield and Vanessa Redgrave), one thrilling biodrama (Pam Gems' Stanley, on English painter Stanley Spencer) and lots of musicals about dead pop singers (Buddy, Elvis and, for Pete's sake, Jolson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: THE BATTLE OF LONDON | 7/22/1996 | See Source »

...firmly believe that the First Amendment's guarantee of separation of church and state must be maintained at all costs. Although the presence of "In G-d we trust" on American currency does not offend my personal religious sensibilities, I would understand completely if it were removed for the sake of Constitutional principles. Nor would I mind if "under G-d" were eliminated from the Pledge of Allegiance. How can such bleeding heart liberalism be reconciled with saying the Lord's prayer every day in homerooms across America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Politics of Silence | 7/9/1996 | See Source »

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