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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Plagiarism at least proclaims that some written words are valuable enough to steal. If the language is magnificent, the sin is comprehensible: the plagiarist could not resist. But what if the borrowed stuff is a flat, lifeless mess -- the road kill of passing ideas? In that case there is less risk, but surely no joy at all. (Does the plagiarist ever feel joy?) Safer to steal the duller stones. None but the dreariest specialists will remember them or sift for them in the muck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Kidnapping The Brainchildren | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

Tonight, the museums will also sponsor a Semiphore Dance Theatre production of "Kill Me Again," a play about the souls of people who have died of AIDS...

Author: By June Shih, | Title: BGLSA Covers John Harvard | 12/1/1990 | See Source »

...leads a nomadic existence, sleeping in a different castle every night and avoiding all company. On the 10th anniversary of her husband's murder, Stanislas, a young anarchist poet who just happens to be the king's exact double, climbs up to her window to kill her. His mission is thwarted though, because he faints. And so begins the fanciful plot of mind games and political intrigue...

Author: By Elijah T. Siegler, | Title: An Unforgettable Fairy Tale | 11/16/1990 | See Source »

...that's somewhat conservative attire for Lauderdale. He says he likes wearing dresses because they are more comfortable than tuxedos, which "confine and constrict movement." Women's accessories are not always as liberating, Lauderdale says. "Heels kill...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Thomas Lauderdale: High Energy Plus Fashion Sense | 11/16/1990 | See Source »

...Ranchers just put their animals on publicland, unguarded, and allow the [wolves] to get the`slow elk,'" Brown said. "Instead of keeping theiranimals on their property, the ranchers kill thepredators or get the Fish and Game personnel tokill them...

Author: By Susan M. Carls, | Title: Listeners Learn to Love Last Leaping Lupines | 11/10/1990 | See Source »

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