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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Accompanist" is not a typical World War II flick. Though what action there is takes place in occupied France and war-torn London, reference to international conflicts serve only to illuminate the nature of individual characters. Focusing on Irene Brice (Elena Safonova), a diva on the brink of universal success, her husband Charles (Richard Bohringer), and her impoverished accompanist, Sophie Vasseur (Romane Bohringer), the movie--through lighting, facial close-ups, music, and symbols--studies personalities, not history...

Author: By Bernie A. Meyler, | Title: Accompanist Sings, 'If Music Be the Fruit of Love, Play On' | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

TIME: Is Russia on the brink of hyperinflation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Are Going to Pursue Dangerous Policies | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

...obligation of the board has been to get value. We've achieved something, and of that I am very proud. When I do leave here, I'm going to leave behind assets that weren't here in 1983, including a balance sheet that was tottering on the brink of bankruptcy and is now very strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paramount Chairman Martin Davis, the Odd Man Out | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

...garde style today is mostly recycled and tired, a thrice-dipped tea bag. There is not only a place but a burning need for art whose images are worldly, skilled, robustly embodied and keenly felt. This is what Freud, by taking nothing for granted and looking over the very brink of his perceptions, supplies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fat Lady Sings | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

Last spring, when Colin Ferguson traveled from Brooklyn to California and back, he had already meandered through misfortune and failure and was perhaps on the brink of madness. Family, school, work, health, everything seemed to have withered away. "He had the 'American Dream,' and when it fell apart, he looked to blame somebody," his landlord told the New York Daily News. In the end, all Ferguson had left was rage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Colin Ferguson: A Mass Murderer's Journey Toward Madness | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

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