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...time dreams -- though the rest of us may not quite see them that way. He is played at full throttle by Robert De Niro in Night and the City, a movie that is, in its essence, a series of verbal arias for the star, occasions to demonstrate bravura technique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Songs of A Street Hustler | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

...theater music seduces. From Jesus Christ Superstar to The Phantom of the Opera, all the hits are here. A virtuoso company of 14 makes even the most familiar songs seem fresh (Laurie Beechman's poignant Memory is a knockout), and star Michael Crawford (the original Phantom) performs with dazzling bravura...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Oct. 5, 1992 | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

...they?), an exploration of evil, both banal and bizarre, and a generous slice of the world as seen by the author, a brainy graduate of Bennington who has mastered Greek and English literature and doesn't care who knows it. It all adds up to confidence verging on bravura...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder Midst The Ferns | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

...convoluted plot twists and bravura posturing might seem reminiscent of a comic opera. Certainly the so-called Dniester Republic (pop. 600,000) is among the miniest of ministates, proclaimed by ethnic Russians and Ukrainians seceding from a secession. Its citizens refused to stay in the new nation of Moldova (pop. 4.4 million), a former Soviet republic that broke away from Moscow last August, because the majority ethnic Romanians were making noises about uniting with their brethren across the border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Splinter, Splinter, Little State | 7/6/1992 | See Source »

Yeltsin was surely aware that many Administration officials still tended to view him as a bumpkin and that he needed to overcome Washington's nostalgia for his sophisticated predecessor, Mikhail Gorbachev. He succeeded with a confident, bravura performance that became a personal triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boris' Boffo Summit Captures Washington | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

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