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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sexual complexity, as Judy baby's husband runs away from her to be with another man. (Of her husband's male friends who used to come visit, she sings bitterly that they were "envying me and flirting with him" instead of the other way round). In a slapstick touch, her husband returns near the end as Judy Bell (Evett), a transsexual telephone repairperson who is now attracted to other women. Nor is this the end of it all: Judy Jr. (Playten), daughter of Judy baby and Judy Bell, decides she's a lesbian, yet gets pregnant. The viewer is left...

Author: By Mary-beth A. Muchmore, | Title: A Very Odd 'Punch and Judy' | 10/31/1996 | See Source »

Pointing out that the intent with which Loker Commons was created was wonderful, this student says, "Loker is just one more piece of evidence of how out of touch the administration is with its student body...

Author: By Amber L. Ramage, | Title: Decline And Fall Of Loker? | 10/29/1996 | See Source »

...Monday I finally get in touch with Jane Fossett, the vice-chair of the Mohegan tribe. She tells me the sad history of the tribe and how the money generated by the casino will go to fund health care and housing for the elderly. I ask her--after she concedes that "ownership isn't part of our culture"--if there is a contradiction in the tribe entering a business venture that grates against its traditional values. But she shrugs off the question as naive. "We have to live in a non-Indian world," she lectures me, "and in order...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: Mohegans' Win Is Wonderland's Loss | 10/29/1996 | See Source »

Almost a quarter of Harvard's undergraduate population got in touch with their inner child on Saturday evening at the Children's Museum, when about 1,400 students attended the annual CityStep Ball held at the museum...

Author: By Amita M. Shukla, | Title: 1400 Attend Ball, But Have Trouble Getting Home | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...revered be subject to profitable re-examination? Does a work so central to Western culture need a spotlight? Genesis is widely regarded as humanity's first, revolutionary statement of the notion that there is but one God, and no day passes when we do not touch upon its stories. Glancingly, as when we note the bitten-apple logo on our computer. Or deeply, as when we heed the words of Jesus, Luther or Freud, all of whom took up the great truths and agonizing questions set out by Hebrew scribes sometime between the 10th and 4th centuries before the advent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENESIS RECONSIDERED | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

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