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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also says the bylaw on absences isn't always applicable. He cites the case of one council member, who was absent from meetings after her father died...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: 4 Quest for U.C. Top Spot | 10/15/1994 | See Source »

...prize of the collection is a haunting story called The Runner, in which an ordinary man tries earnestly to bridge the spiritual distance between himself and his long-absent sister, legendary in Arizona for making all but impossible runs over ancient, barely visible Anasazi trails in the Grand Canyon. Her descents are a kind of Zen archery, only partly physical. Lopez, who's far too shrewd to bring the fey sister onstage, leaves the reader with a mysterious image: the woman, running on her toes like a deer, glimpsed by rafting vacationers, and then, downriver beyond impassible rock walls, glimpsed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Sketchbook | 10/10/1994 | See Source »

Still on the phone with Continental, Wardell noticed that the intruder was picking up items on the absent roommate's desk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams A's Obnoxious Intruder | 9/30/1994 | See Source »

...problem of absent pocket schedules results, ironically, from an effort by shuttle services to make them more useful, Tempesta said...

Author: By Nate Barksdale, | Title: Shuttles Buses Arrive, But Few Know Times | 9/28/1994 | See Source »

...dress rehearsal, but the seams don't show. From first note to last, Liaisons is a finely polished work that achieves a French transparency, sparingly invoking Debussy (not Pelleas but Images pour Orchestre). Unabashedly tonal, although hardly reactionary, the score glows with a luminescence too long absent from modern opera, and especially opera in English; for an equal, one must go back to Britten's Death in Venice (1973), which Liaisons resembles musically in many small ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: The Mating Game | 9/26/1994 | See Source »

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