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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second of the scenes also contains two smooth dance numbers with undulating gypsy maidens and simulated bullfights. Joel Derfner's acrobatic performance as the riotously poker-faced bullfighter Piquillo is executed without missing a beat (or a breath) in the midst of his vocal performance as Gaston...

Author: By Jefferson Packer, | Title: Magnum Opera Stops the Show | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

...into a more driven, guitar-buoyed section. Written from the point of view of an obsessive fan, with lyrics that are both erotic and slightly frightening, her voice breaks as she declares, "You speak to me in riddles and you speak to me in rhyme/ My body aches to breathe your breath, your words keep me alive," a perfect contrast to the calmer, more controlled elements of the song. In the vein of "Into the Fire," McLachlan's hit off of her second album Solace, the song is just as beautiful in the extra, acoustic version included...

Author: By Diane E. Levitan, | Title: Ecstatic Fumbling | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

...even this presumptuous slogan is not as inappropriate as the "Peculiar Institution" campaign. Last year, the Coalition leaders demonstrated both their insolence and their stupidity when they compared the "plight" of minority students at Harvard to the unspeakable horrors of slavery. To even mention the two in the same breath is to trivialize the experiences of the African-Americans who suffered and died under slavery...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Rebels Without a Cause | 3/9/1994 | See Source »

...sense, nostalgic moralists are almost always right, as Rome eventually proved. The problem is that nostalgic moralism may turn itself into a political program -- which produces jackboot simplism, the fascism that feels like a breath of fresh air as it approaches, and like an apocalypse in its aftermath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Search for Virtues | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

...physical Golden Knights and Saints decided to get into a "war in the trenches," as Tomassoni puts it--with the vocal hockey-loving student bodies of both schools watching with bated breath--there could be blood...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Strong Union Team Adds Toughness to ECAC | 3/4/1994 | See Source »

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