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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sort out?discovers otherwise. Alyssa has had male lovers in the past. This devastates Holden and wrecks both relationships. "It?s a sad and fiercely told story," notes Schickel. "Smith and his actors catch the stunned manner of a culture that thinks postmodernism is a synonym for postemotionalism. They?re always trying to be coolly affectless about hotly affecting issues, hoping blunt, acceptant talk about sexual congress will disarm the subtle pains it always implies." BOOKS . . . BEAR AND HIS DAUGHTER: Robert Stone?s fans have had to content themselves, so far, with the five novels that he has published sporadically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Entertainment Guide | 3/28/1997 | See Source »

Levy conducted a series of interviews with his profane and grandiloquent subject (favorite quote: John F. Kennedy was "one of the great [extremely vulgar synonym for ladies' man] of all time. Except for me") until the famously volatile comedian blew up at a semitough question about The Day the Clown Cried, his unfinished 1972 film drama about the Holocaust. (Disclosure: Levy's chapter on the making of The Day the Clown Cried relies heavily--and with due credit--on a magazine article I wrote on the subject for Spy.) Levy certainly doesn't shy away from psychobiography: Lewis' demanding though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE NUTTY BIOGRAPHEE | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

...Scofflaws' ode, "William Shatner," is another prime example of the gleeful nature of ska. Dedicated to the actor of Star Trek fame, the few words of the song not suprisingly treat William Shatner as a mere synonym for Captain Kirk: "He's got a fine tan shirt with an emblem on the chest/ The interstellar girls all like him the best." MU330 from St. Louis also show their wackiness with the song "Stuff." Described playfully in the liner notes as being "a hopeless romantic sort of thing, really," this tune contains such memorable lines as "I'm just so tired...

Author: By Ryan S. Mccarthy, | Title: Put On Your Ska Outfit and Dance! | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

...including the "softer" hits of alternative groups like R.E.M. and Pearl Jam. Lowen and Navarro is just of the "adult" groups that WBOS has made their other staple, and with Broken Moon, this guitar-playing duo proves that, at least in this case, "soft album rock" is not a synonym for elevator music...

Author: By Diane E. Levitan, | Title: Moonstruck Melodies | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

Kotowski said Young has a skewed notion of whatconstitutes a "fair" contract. "I don't know whather definition of fair is. A synonym of fair isequal and the numbers aren't equal, therefore it'snot fair," Kotowski said...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Police Union Starts Publicity Campaign | 10/25/1993 | See Source »

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