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...Dartboard hope never to see the day when a bunch of bloated yet somehow enlightened people sit around a bar, drinking Coors' Artic Ice and spouting about Shakespeare: "Yes, that scene with Henry in the camp was certainly important, but I found the battle of Avignon a bit anticlimatic afterwards...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: HAVE A FEW, YOU WON'T NOTICE | 11/4/1995 | See Source »

There is a difference between being intelligent enough to do well in school and being intelligent enough to realize that seven shots of vodka will someday, somehow, catch up with you. Many brilliant Harvard students deliberately choose not to understand the second point...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Stop Binge Drinking | 11/1/1995 | See Source »

...FARRAKHAN PUT IT BEST last week when he said he was "a nightmare"to some but "a dream come true" to others. That phrase perfectly captured the polarized emotions he engenders between--and within--the races. But the image was apt for another reason as well, for Farrakhan seems somehow to attach to our unconscious. He is a powerful, mysterious figure, elusive and changeable. As blacks and whites spoke of Farrakhan and his role in the Million Man March, they often seemed to be talking about someone they saw not in person or on CNN but in a vision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIRAGE OF FARRAKHAN | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

...flash-back memory and a courageous street-crossing help Skunk Guy learn to stop drooling all over the place, but somehow it doesn't really matter. The inventive costumes (especially a certain breast-squeezing machine and a Torah-reading monkey-device) keep the 14 minute short just barely above water...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: Short & NASTY underground | 10/26/1995 | See Source »

...best of the pieces is also the least self consciously bizarre, "Brouhaha," directed by lay Beckman tells the everyday, black and white story of couple who throw a party which Satan crashes. When things get bad, as we knew they would, the host stays calm and retreats to his somehow ghoulishly tiled bathroom There he calmly administers a progressively more severe regimen of beer (the devil kicked the keg), whisky, pills, heroin and cocine. The restraint of clever shot angles of the 23 minute film make up for the terrible dubbing and college dorm feel of the party (would...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: Short & NASTY underground | 10/26/1995 | See Source »

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