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Meanwhile, pitiful dateless slobs would partake of alternative forms of celebration. These included brisk rereadings of Locke's Second Treatise on Government, fiercely competitive Scrabble tournaments, ceremonial renditions of Mozart's Fourth Oboe Quintet and heated discussions of the socioeconomic and metaphysical implications of pita pizza...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: The Two Sides of Valentine's Day | 2/14/1991 | See Source »

...They are safe, they are students, they are your friends," Kramer says. "How many psychopaths are running around this campus or any other campus?" She adds, "It's for fun people--they haven't been dateless and desperate...

Author: By Camille L. Landau, | Title: Students Offer The 'Desperately Seeking' A Solution | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...sense of display is abolished. The objects are inorganic and dateless: milky long-necked bottles and squat flasks, a biscuit tin, a fluted bowl, some long-beaked metal pitchers. They carry no marks, patterns or brand names. They look fragile and contingent, but they endure for decades, through picture after picture. (To make sure that nothing disturbed the precise relationships he put them in, Morandi drew chalk circles around the bases of his "models" on the surface of the table.) Sometimes the things have the look of architecture; the slender bottle necks, leaning together, vaguely recall the towers of Bologna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Master of Unfussed Clarity | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

...play is didactic and padded with anemic subplots. It lives through Conti. Quite apart from his resonant vocal range, he has wondrously expressive eyes, incendiary in rage, impish in mischief, grave in contemplation and stinging in pain. Few Broadway debuts are so auspiciously marked on the dateless calendar of brilliance. It is a measure of Conti "s achievement that we cheer his victory unto death and mourn the loss of the man in the same instant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Who Plays God? | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

These three ladies and their assorted Steve Stunnings fill 499 and a half pages of super-sado-maso-chistic-hyper-orgiastic drama that is guaranteed to keep any dateless teeny-bopper or frustrated insomniac gasping into the night...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phalle, | Title: A Secretary's Schmaltz | 8/22/1967 | See Source »

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