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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...language of our culture "hasn't been able to represent difference without hierarchy. For us to do that, it is really necessary to have a change in language." A former dancer, she reaches for a musical metaphor to suggest how the contrasting voices of men and women might blend. "One can think of the oboe and the clarinet as different," she says. "Yet when they play together, there is a sound that's not either one of them, but it doesn't dissolve the identity of either instrument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Self & Society: Coming From A Different Place | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

...magazines are greatly concerned with clothes) are overwhelmingly white. The very fact of homosexuality is largely ignored. Three competitors are in their opening month or two: Details, a bratty, street- talking melange aimed at men in their 20s and early 30s; Men's Life, a smirky yet sentimental blend of National Lampoon and the Saturday Evening Post directed at fortyish suburban baby boomers; and M Inc., a merger of two prestigious but money-losing forerunners, Manhattan, inc. and M, that is meant, like its predecessors, for the well heeled and silver templed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A Muchness of Maleness | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

Executors of the King's estate have licensed the sale of a new Presley spray cologne that will retail at $19.50. No, it doesn't smell like a sweaty towel or a blue suede shoe; the scent is described as a "contemporary, masculine blend of woods, herbs and amber." Read: a good-ole-boy's Old Spice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smart Marketing Rhinestone Belt | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

...Prince as the abandoned wife, Michael Rupert as her ex-husband, Stephen Bogardus as the man he left her for, and Price as the psychiatrist. The fulcrum of the ensemble is the child of the broken marriage, on the eve of his Bar Mitzvah, played with just the right blend of anxiety and healing gumption by Danny Gerard, 13. Each actor gets at least one beautiful, revealing song, and all of them make William Finn's music haunting. This individual excellence adds up to general excellence: for craft and for heart, Falsettoland is the first great musical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: A Great Musical for the '90s | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...been a good blend of continuing the quality of the choir and his bringing new ideas and enthusiasm," says McGrath...

Author: By Christine Edwards, | Title: Organist, Choirmaster Joins Memorial Church | 9/29/1990 | See Source »

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