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...what they are trying to be. If they are adept at using themselves and others, they will shine. And Madonna -- who has played more roles in a decade of camera courtship than Katharine Hepburn has in 60 years of movie stardom -- radiates luxe, wit and common sense playing a semi-real character based on a fiction named Madonna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Does Madonna Wanna Be? | 5/6/1991 | See Source »

Last fall, self-described "humorists" from the Harvard Lampoon--a semi-sadomasochistic social club that periodically publishes perennially pitiful parodies--massacred Cambridge's brave, defenseless Freedom Tree. With an axe. This violent affront to American liberty and the local environment sickened and saddened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Do Unto Others... | 4/23/1991 | See Source »

...Wimbledon a couple of times. Tennis comebacks aren't unknown; John McEnroe, 32, who was one of the reasons Borg burned out, took a furlough from the game for several months in '86, came back, left again in '87, came back once more, and last fall reached the semi-finals of the U.S. Open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Coming Back to Me Now! | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

Loyola is a very capable team. While they may not be on par with the squad that reached the national semi-finals last year, they are well-balanced and very talented. The Lady Greyhounds have earned their number 12 national ranking with a perfect record on the road, where they have won five games...

Author: By C.w. Sanzone, | Title: Laxwomen Host 12th-Ranked Loyola | 4/19/1991 | See Source »

...felling of the tree marks the latest incident stemming from a feud which dates back to the 1960s. Much suspicion falls on the Lampoon, a semi-secret organization known to occasionally publish what some hesitantly call a humor magazine. Lampoon members were unavailable for comment yesterday...

Author: By Sean L. Presant, | Title: TROUBLE | 4/19/1991 | See Source »

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