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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contrast to traditionally "suitable" subjects for opera, like classical mythology, pastoral romance and gothic drama, Ethan Frome cuts a different figure. Edith Wharton's book contains very little dialogue, and when the characters speak, they talk about timber and tobacco pouches, not their passionate and undying love...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ETHAN FROME | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...poison our nation. That contribution may well be small, but it is still a harmful one. We all want to have fun, but fun unfortunately has a price. The final club dynamic is unacceptable, yet it has become a social norm. If we do nothing, if members never speak out against their policies and we still flock to their doors, the clubs will continue to feed an increasingly unvirtuous society...

Author: By David B. Friedland, | Title: Facing the Scars of Final Clubs | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...speak," she said before I could finish my sentence, and she put her hand up dramatically like Dianne Wiest in "Bullets over Broadway." "Don't tell me anything...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: Isolated in the Information Age | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...pass me on the street and want to tell me that what I've written here are the ravings of a technophobic, millennialist kook, don't speak! Send me an e-mail...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: Isolated in the Information Age | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...impeachment alternative -- such as Gerald Ford's public rebuke plan, or the White House-favored "censure-plus." Even Henry Hyde had to admit the senator was "ahead of the curve," although he added that nothing would halt his committee's impeachment probe before Ken Starr has a chance to speak on November 19. Still, with at least five Republican representatives having come out publicly against impeachment over the past few days, GOP lawmakers no longer have the votes in the House -- let alone the Senate -- to impeach Clinton. In the face of a humiliating defeat on the floor, building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unraveling of Impeachment | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

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