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...wife and neighbors smile, Douggan describes the feast. "Corned beef and spare ribs and cabbage and lots of potatoes. The Irish love potatoes. Not just one potato either, we have five or six each...

Author: By Joshua D. Fine, | Title: For the Moment | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

...live up in the Mather highrise, and the view is great. Too great. I can see into open windows all over campus. Unfortunately, there's this guy who reads his Crimson in the nude. I won't say what House this guy's in to spare him. This fellow is in one of my classes. Should I tell him that people in Mather are seeing the Crimson's full frontal page? Embarassed in Mather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kiss Me, I'm Irish | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

Poetry is the thing in MTV's first Spoken Word Tour, which wraps up after 20 cities in Cambridge, Massachusetts, later this month. It features the fiery Reg E. Gaines and two other poets reading their work on a spare stage. What would Beavis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Furthermore: Mar. 14, 1994 | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

...music reflects not only his own life, it reflects ideas about life and death, just as the greatest composers have always had," notes Masur, who has known Schnittke personally since 1974. Masur last month led the New York Philharmonic in the world premiere of Schnittke's spare, incantational Symphony No. 7, which the orchestra commissioned at Masur's insistence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: The Sound of Russian Fury | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

Mike Newell's film finds its premise in one of modern life's minor truths: if you are a sociable specimen of the yuppie breed, you spend many of your Saturdays and much of your spare income suiting yourself up for friends' % weddings. Charles (Hugh Grant), a 32-year-old Londoner, has made a second career out of being a supporting player in these archaic rituals. For him it's like attending a rugby match without having to get muddy. Until, that is, he meets Carrie (Andie MacDowell), a pretty American. The movie being a nostalgia piece -- remember...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Four Weddings and a Funeral: Well Groomed | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

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