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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little or a lot--gently mad or glittery-eyed gaga. Nuttiness is the only sane explanation for wanting to possess every matchbook cover or baseball card ever printed or for paying $47 million to own a Van Gogh. Or trying to collect every fact in the space-time continuum by memorizing an encyclopedia or deciding to experience one of every kind of lover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONE OF EACH | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

...LITTLE or a lot -- gently mad or glittery-eyed gaga. Nuttiness is the only sane explanation for wanting to possess every matchbook cover or baseball card ever printed or for paying $47 million to own a Van Gogh. Or trying to collect every fact in the space-time continuum by memorizing an encyclopedia or deciding to experience one of every kind of lover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: One Of Each | 1/23/1995 | See Source »

...work as part of a continuum," she said. "I'm interested in doing whatever interests me. I oppose rigid, ideological classification...

Author: By Jonathan A. Lewin, | Title: VES Appoints Phelan to Faculty | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...really the follow-up," he adds. "We can't tell you where you are on the [mono] continuum...

Author: By M. ALLISON Arwady, | Title: Mono Common, But Often Misdiagnosed | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

Albert's music is not simply a commentary on its sources, however; it is a transformation of them. "I seek a new synthesis: to find new relations between old things," he once said. "I want to form a continuum with the past, not ape it." As Albert becomes part of the past, the proof of his accomplishment is that he did exactly that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Ars Longa, Vita Brevis | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

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