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John Lurie is back from Paradise as the lowgrade lowlife Jack, a man so cool he is almost dead. Singer Tom Waites gives an outstanding film debut as the alcoholic Zack, a washed out Wolfman Jack with a Valium temperment. Robertc Benigni starts out as a Chico Marx knock-off...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Cinema Veritas | 10/10/1986 | See Source »

The Trendy, Statement Maker, and Dress-for-Success-er all belie the expressive significance of fashion, and fall short of possessing genuine style, because they are working from the outside in. It is paradoxical that so many clotheshorses who cherish the notion of fashion as individual "signature" execute forgeries on...

Author: By Margaret Y. Han, | Title: Outside In | 3/17/1984 | See Source »

The biography seems quite cosmopolitan, so it is somewhat surprising that Gregory J. Nagy (pronounced "Nazh"), professor of Latin and Greek, calls himself "by temperment, a Midwesterner." He was raised in the heartland--not on a farm, but on the campus of the University of Indiana, which he attended. "I...

Author: By Steven R. Swartz, | Title: The Van Dyke of Classics | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

Brown's constitutency was not always so diffuse. When he needed the Democratic nomination for Governor, he was a liberal. He promised smaller classes in schools, bilingual education, more money for teachers and massive school improvement programs. Somewhere along the road he discovered the true nature of his state's...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Lowered Expectations in the Pastures of Plenty | 4/8/1976 | See Source »

If the Democrats do go for Muskie in '76, uniting under the theme that Muskie was cheated out of the election in 1972, William Loeb's "great public service" of three years ago may very well turn out to be the greatest private service ever performed for Edmund Muskie. For...

Author: By Mark A. Feldstein, | Title: Muskie for President? | 2/21/1975 | See Source »

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