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...matter how shlocky, programming aimed at conveying the full scope of womanhood may now have an easier time of it. NBC is trying to find a companion series to Providence that would follow it on Fridays at 9 p.m. Twentieth Century Fox is developing a Providence-type show for CBS about a mother and daughter based loosely on the life of star Amy Brenneman (formerly of NYPD Blue), whose mom is a judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Meet The Post-Ally Women | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

...first stanza of one of Herbert's few poems that explicitly confronts twentieth century history, "The Ardennes Forest," he draws on the same notion of dream as a doorway to comprehending experience to also present a picture typical of his understanding of man and nature...

Author: By Benjamin E. Lytal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Zbigniew H. Dies, a Master | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

...conundrums that the young geniuses Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein might have faced, contains heterogeneous elements running from unabashed sexuality to out-landish predictions about the future, all presented in a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic mode. However, the play's overarching theme is the question of what the twentieth century holds in store for humankind. Watching this thought-provoking piece at the end of 1998, near the threshhold of the 21st century, is a most meaningful experience...

Author: By Marcelline Block, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Get Drunk with Last Century's Greats: Picasso and Einstein's Favorite Dive Lives | 1/8/1999 | See Source »

...themes and plot devices common throughout the Star Trek series. It relies on a storyline with a strong moral dimension--the quality which truly sets Star Trek apart from most other science fiction TV programs and movies. Like the TV series, this movie is also full of nineteenth and twentieth century references: when Data malfunctions, Captain Picard calls him back to reality by singing Gilbert and Sullivan. In the twenty-fourth century universe of Star Trek, such references might seem anachronistic, but they allow the audience to connect with the story, despite its distant-future setting...

Author: By Sara M. Jablon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Nimbed Generation Goes Where It's Gone Before | 1/8/1999 | See Source »

...remember the names listed in Memorial Church. Behind each name was a wide-eyed freshman or a senior with a world awaiting. Forgotten by time and space and from a Harvard much different than it is now, they held the same promise and dreams in the beginning of the twentieth century as we do now at century...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Recalling Harvard's Greatest Sacrifice | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

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