Word: candidates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stars. "Vladimir Nabokov started out very formidable, asking for questions ahead of time," she recalls of a 1969 interview. "But once I traveled to Switzerland and saw him in Montreux, he was whimsical and utterly charming." In the world of ballet, a specialty of Duffy's, Peter Martins was "candid to a fault," while Mikhail Baryshnikov often offered "poetic responses" to her questions. Perhaps Duffy's secret is that she notices and records the variety in this world exceptionally well...
...high school carries grade-point averages out to four decimal places for precision in class rank. This is where the American Dream still works, where crime is something glimpsed on a newscast, where the next generation prompts hope and not despair. Neither neighbors nor teachers nor her perhaps more candid peers see the girl's fall from grace as typical. To her fellow townspeople, Amy Fisher's life offers no moral alert, no cautionary lessons. She is just a postcard from beyond the edge...
...BOTTOM LINE: The sweet harmonies are back, but the trio's second album is startlingly personal and candid...
...sweet harmonies are back but the subject matter is far more personal -- and gut wrenching. All three women have been estranged from their fathers -- whose well-publicized problems have included drugs and other hazards of rock stardom -- and their anguish over those fractured relationships is dealt with in startlingly candid cuts...
...only about the Administration's penchant for law-and-order solutions to the virtual exclusion of other remedies but also by the lack of an insightful & response on the part of his own Democratic Party. "I had hoped that L.A. would provide the opportunity for people to be candid with each other about the dimension of the problems as well as the aspects of the problems, and to treat them with urgency," said Bradley. "But that hasn't happened...