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...party, both come home drunk and mercilessly attacking each other: Martha thinks George is a failure, George tells Martha that she drinks too much and "brays" too much. Neither has any qualms about involving two innocent guests, Nick and Honey, in their crazy, dangerous games. They spend from midnight till dawn exposing any hidden truth they can uncover that will draw blood. The truth that remains veiled is that only people who once loved (or still love) each other very much would know how to destroy each other like this; only once, Martha alludes to this, "[George] who can make...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, | Title: Before War of the Roses | 11/18/1993 | See Source »

...point is the production hostile to the male members of its audience. In fact at many points the backchat on stage ("You have the curse `till you're an old woman. Then it stops. Then you die.") got more laughs from male than female spectators...

Author: By Tilly Franklin, | Title: At Emerson Stage, A Good Mother | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

...expertise is astonishing, and he long ago articulated his formula for success: "You do your homework, you chart clear goals, you make sure all the parts mesh, and then, even though you have to bend some to get stuff passed, you stick by the key pieces of your plan till you accomplish your goals." But consistency and constancy, the critical prerequisites to the successful pursuit of any policy, are missing abroad. Why? It may be that Clinton's foreign and defense policy team is second-rate, judging from its performance in Somalia. Or it may be that a President whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest It's All Foreign to Clinton | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

...officials were unusually tight-lipped about revealing who the generous donors were. In an interview, all that Harvard Athletic Director Bill Cleary would say was, "You won't get the names if you ask me till the cows come home. You won't get the names...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: How Do You Freeze? | 10/16/1993 | See Source »

...with their bench cushions and espresso warmers couldn't even bother to sit through both games of the Beanpot. I wondered what cosmic force turned strapping young men and women such as we into old bores who would rather plan the quickest route back to Duxbury than scream "Sieve" till their face turned blue...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: A Tunnel to Boston's Past | 10/9/1993 | See Source »

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