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...highest compliment to a woman--that she acted and thought like a man--just as new Hollywood accepts films with transvestites, men who act and think like women. In the '50s, gayness could be viewed as a social disease (in Tea and Sympathy) or with oblique rapture (in the torrid gaze of Stephen Boyd's Messala at Charlton Heston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE FINAL FRONTIER | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

...Horse Whisperer, a romantic yarn in which a Montana cowboy with a mystical gift for communicating with horses has a torrid affair with a British-born magazine editor from New York, caused a stir in publishing and Hollywood circles as soon as the manuscript began circulating last fall. Robert Redford and Disney ponied up $3 million for movie rights; Dell Publishing won North American book rights for $3.15 million; and foreign rights topped $2 million. And that was before Evans had even finished writing the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: A KINGDOM FOR HIS HORSE | 10/16/1995 | See Source »

...ball well," said sophomore shortstop Mike Hochanadel, who continued his torrid pace of late with a 2-3 day, "But we were hitting the ball right at people...

Author: By Mayer Bick, | Title: Baseball Swept Away in Four Games Against Dartmouth | 5/1/1995 | See Source »

...Torrid Princeton (38-6, 12-0) has clinched this year's Ivy League title and has won an astounding 26 games...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Softball Outduels Hartford Twice, 4-2 and 2-0 | 4/26/1995 | See Source »

Senior first baseman Joe Weidenbach has also hit at a torrid pace, leading the team with a .457 average. Weidenbach is in the midst of a ninegame hitting streak...

Author: By Jason E. Kolman, | Title: Crimson Baseball Opens Well | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

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