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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...since Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar has a personal account of life in a mental hospital achieved as much popularity and acclaim as Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted. Published in hard cover a year ago, it immediately became a surprise best seller. The paperback edition (Vintage; $10) is now firmly entrenched on the best-seller list. Kaysen has received hundreds of letters from readers who have also been hospitalized for psychiatric problems, and on her just completed tour of 16 cities to promote the paperback, dozens of people whispered their own stories of mental illness to her. To many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: The Unconfessional Confessionalist | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

...despite the acclaim for her appointment,some teachers remain critical of Sommers' abilityto make personnel decisions fairly...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: New Expos Director Named | 5/18/1994 | See Source »

Riefenstahl defends herself adamantly, saying that critics are blaming her now because of the atrocities committed by the Nazis during the war, whereas before the war "Triumph of the Will" won critical acclaim and several international awards...

Author: By Emil J. Kiehne, | Title: It's a Wonderful, Horrible Life | 5/13/1994 | See Source »

Actor Matthew Modine won acclaim at this year's Sundance Film Festival for his short film Smoking, in which a nerdy smoker tries to cope with ever more burdensome restrictions on his beloved habit. Modine sees poetry in partaking. "There are times which are just really fantastic cigarette moments," says Modine. "That postcoital cigarette, or that cold winter night walking down the street. There's nothing more comforting than holding a burning ember in your hands and sucking the smoke into your lungs. The coffeehouse cigarette. The cigarette after a couple of pints of lager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smoking: The Butt Stops Here | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

This movie, as much as it is billed as such, is not about sex. In the presence of any human tragedy, the basic human traits, and not the source of the tragedy, make the drama. "Savage Nights" has received so much acclaim, including a host of Cesar Awards (the French Oscars), because it is the first film to confront the harsh, raw, smarmy side living with AIDS. It shows the character without apology, living the melodrama that we are supposed to believe is their lives...

Author: By William Winborn, | Title: Bracing AIDS Film Looks at Sex and Death | 4/14/1994 | See Source »

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