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Winsome Brown make a deliciously decrepit Claire Trumpefeller. Her role is a mix of the spoiled princess who wants the moon, the vengeful bitch, the Lady Bountiful and the tragic hero spoiled by circumstances. Brown manages to bring them together with surprising skill. However, Brown fails to make us see the passionate child that Claire used to be. Looking at Brown, the viewer sees only the narcissistic old woman of the present...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Like That Old Relative Who Won't Go Away: A "Dragging" Visit at the Loeb Mainstage | 4/9/1992 | See Source »

...LOOKING BACKWARDS, it seems almost tragic to Hershey, or perhaps comic, that he really has nothing worth reporting," says the entry. Fifty years after graduating from Harvard College, Omer Fenimore Hershey, a retired lawyer living in Florida, reflected on his life and told the class secretary there was well, not much of interest...

Author: By Zachary M. Schrag, | Title: The Class of (18)92 | 4/7/1992 | See Source »

...spina bifida, in which there is incomplete closure of the spine, and anencephaly, in which the brain fails to develop fully. British researchers found that when women who had already given birth to a malformed child received folic acid supplements during a subsequent pregnancy, the chances of a second tragic birth fell sharply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Scoop On Vitamins | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

...caged princesses must play power games, with their rivals as opponents and their servants as pawns. Subtly, sullenly, the women flaunt their femininity -- and in doing so destroy any chance for their sisterhood to flower. Songlian, the youngest, is the first to rebel against this system. A tragic comeuppance awaits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Princesses in A Pretty Prison | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

Because they were afraid to set a totalitarian precedent, the courts set a tragic and wasteful one. They should have allowed Theresa Ann's parents and doctors to end her life. This decision would have implied that anencephalic infants were a special case of de facto brain death...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Baby Talk | 4/3/1992 | See Source »

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