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...spate of new books attacking Freud and his brainchild psychoanalysis for a generous array of errors, duplicities, fudged evidence and scientific howlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Assault on Freud | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...shrine built to the original, as in 1990's unimaginative but impeccable reproduction of Fiddler on the Roof, or a piece of fey revisionism such as 1992's cartoon reconception of Guys and Dolls, which turned into the hottest ticket in town and helped spark this season's spate. Sometimes a revival is so extensive it's treated as new, like 1992's Crazy for You, a loose remake of the Gershwins' Girl Crazy, which won the Tony Award for best new musical, or 1993's Tommy, which shared the Tony Award for best score -- for music dating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forward to The Past | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

...Loeb production starts well. A monumental village plaza impresses the audience with its scale and ambition. The radical foreshortening of the town hall does induce a momentary spate of seasickness, but for the most part the set inspires confidence...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, | Title: The Speedy Rise and Fall of Fuente Ovejuna | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

Many of the posters take jabs at the council, mocking its recent spate of troubles...

Author: By Sandhya R. Rao, | Title: Council Candidates Poster to Impress | 10/6/1993 | See Source »

...closest bunch of roommates at Harvard. It might be better, then, to think of our arguments as dialogues. Or even better, dialogues of friendship. (Does that somehow ring a bell?) To give you an idea of what I mean, here's an excerpt from our most recent spate of angry, but friendly words...

Author: By Daniel Choi, | Title: With Friends Like These... | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

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