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...loyal pal, a gentle first love -- or a lost boy. And gradually, he became lost among his peers. Johnny Depp (co-owner of the Viper Room) got stronger roles; Keanu Reeves put his satanic good looks to productive use; Robert Sean Leonard assumed the mantle of sensitive swain. Phoenix's last two films have long gone unreleased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Own Private Agony | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

Elizabeth W. Swain `63, president of Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa, said that the members' response has been overwhelmingly positive...

Author: By Timothy P. Yu, | Title: Honor Societies May Merge | 11/13/1993 | See Source »

...flew down the sidelines and made a perfect pass to Swain, who easily tapped the ball into the net with only 13:31 left to play...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: M. Booters Stun 17th-Ranked Hartwick, 4-1 | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

Uphoff also ably maintains the balance between the literal Elizabethan text and the modern preppie kindergarten created in this production. For example, it makes perfect sense in this version that the two main courtiers, Berowne and Rosaline, would flirt while playing basketball and that the swain Costard would listen to a Walkman while he worked. The chaotic profusion of toys (everything from a Mr. Potato Head to a Rubiks Cube gets used in the course of the production) only heightens the artificiality of the perfect kingdom Navarre and his friends are trying to establish...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: Uphoff Expertly Directs Love's Labor's Lost | 4/15/1993 | See Source »

...having various forms of sex with his wife Ilona Staller, the Italian porn star-politician who rose to fame under the name Cicciolina. The results range in size from small glass figurines to a photo-based mural. The centerpiece is an over-life-size carving of Cicciolina and her swain in rapture, like Adam and Eve, with a giant python curled around their plinth. As pornography, these works are inefficiently winsome; as art, wholly inert beneath their gaudiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Princeling Of Kitsch | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

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