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...Murray in Advise and Consent) or were accused of one (Shirley MacLaine in The Children's Hour). Moral: the only good gay was a dead gay. It took the 1970 film of Mart Crowley's hit play The Boys in the Band to find good news amid the woe. As one character noted, "Not all faggots bump themselves off at the end of the story...

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

...Woe to you if you are caught in Harold's ahistorical grip. To bar against such frightening possibilities, the IRS should get another historian and clean up its act before it cleans up everyone else...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: WE'RE WATCHING YOU | 12/16/1995 | See Source »

Saturday's game marked the sixth time Harvard has scored three goals or fewer. It's record in those games: 0-5-1. When it scores at least four, Harvard is 5-0-0.... Woe Canada: Harvard is 0-3-1 when the Canadian anthem is played before a game.... Senior Kirk Nielsen was thwarted by the right goal post midway through the second period.... Harvard nullified two of its own power play by taking penalties, one of which was retaliatory and definitely unnecessary.... Four of Harvard's five wins have come against Ivy League school. Good news: Princeton...

Author: By David S. Griffel, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Geb Marett, Fourth Line Shine in Loss | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

...MESSAGE IS TO THE PIOUSLY PREACHing Johnnie Cochran and others: "Woe to you, lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge; you did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering you hindered" (Luke 11: 52). CAROL BERRY, Waco, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1995 | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

...intellectual aristocrat, part of the Russian liberal class whose hopes for democracy were crushed by triumphant Bolshevism. Scorn for tyrants is etched on many of the pre-World War II Berlin stories, as well as others written during the '40s and '50s after he immigrated to the U.S. And woe to the poseur whose influence is based solely on personality. From Spring in Fialta: "Lean and arrogant, with some poisonous pun ever ready to fork out and quiver at you, and with a strange look of expectancy in his dull brown veiled eyes, this false wag had, I daresay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: DIVINITY IN THE DETAILS | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

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