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...sheer bad luck for the cast of My Mother Said I Never Should that one of the only British reviewers for this newspaper was the one sitting in the Emerson Stage's Studio Theatre on the opening night last Wednesday. Luckily the program informed me that the play is set in Manchester and London; I would have been lost otherwise, as the actresses' accents veered unnervingly between Boston, Northern Ireland and South Africa. Yet once I had gotten used to being whisked from contintent to continent, I was captivated...

Author: By Tilly Franklin, | Title: At Emerson Stage, A Good Mother | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

...psychology and language, gave Brando the showcase that established Stanislavskian subjectivity as the standard for serious American acting and offered director Elia Kazan the chance to develop a style that subtly, hypnotically serves conflicting demands, including the play's for claustrophobia, the actors' for ensemble playing, the movies' for sheer movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A '50s Masterpiece for the '90s | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

...Year at U.C. Davis," but he couldn't find a rhyme for "Davis"). Pointed Accounts of People You Know (1983) and Distortion (1984) are shorter and easier to dig, with delights to be found not only in the multiple melodies and the self-conscious wit, but in the sheer breadth of brightly muddy synth sound in, say, "Metal and Glass Exact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Steve L. Burt One Chord Wonders | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

...actually found myself marvelling out loud at the sheer virtuosity with which this movie was made...

Author: By Young-ho Yoon, | Title: Kurosawa's Exquisite Film, `High and Low' | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

...irresistible attraction that makes one pick at scabs or attend grand openings of Wal-Marts. The attraction of the space does not come from the "very now, very 90s" blue, metal waves along the arcade, or the painstakingly hip "Rebecca's Santa Fe Express Cafe." It comes from the sheer magnetism...

Author: By Christopher Capozzola, | Title: Down with The Shops: A Manifesto | 10/8/1993 | See Source »

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