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Elizabeth A. Murphy

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Album Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Album

Buffy drives home, forlorn, after a particularly wrenching scene with Angel; teardrop face framed in the windshield under a rain-dark


Lighthearted Weapon

LETHAL WEAPON 4 Directed by Richard Donner Starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover Don't ever throw a handgun overboard, because as


Deane's New Novel Explores N. Ireland Tensions

READING THE DARK By Seamus Deene 246 pp., $12 Vintage The terrain of Seamus Deane's new novel can be stunningly


Moody Novel Is No Pity Party

PURPLE AMERICA Rick Moody Back Bay Books/Little, Brown 298 pp., $13.95 There is a certain, dangerous school of modern fiction


Impressionism in the Big Easy: A Meeting of Minds in New Orleans

The best of all possible worlds, contrary to any notions Leibniz or Voltaire might have had, was post-Civil War New


Flurry of Activity Raises Awareness Of AIDS Crisis

A series of exhibitions, discussions and film screenings marked World AIDS Day at Harvard yesterday. The day's events are part


Family Ties: Acting Highlights 'Red Roses'

A funeral is an odd blend of joy and sadness. Relatives separated by miles and years ecstatically renew their old


Finally, a Festival Worth Seeing

Waltham is not, perhaps, the most diverting destination serviced by the MBTA. Many of the most prominent signs in town


Little Mystery to a Lighthearted 'Underworld'

George Orwell seems amused in many of his photographs; his twinkling gaze laughs at those who would look at his