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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...growing number of producers who are seeking out that crowd. She has co-produced three shows that have thrived largely on the strength of the younger audience: Freak, John Leguizamo's one-man show that had a successful Broadway run last season; I'm Still Here...Damn It!, Sandra Bernhard's monologue-plus-music, which has just opened on Broadway after a hit engagement downtown; and De La Guarda, a performance troupe from Argentina that has become a hot off-Broadway attraction. Joining them are a batch of new plays making a determined effort to attract the long-neglected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Children of Rent | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...viciousness of the military response hardened attitudes. "Damn this country!" muttered a student as he tied a wet towel around his face to ward off the tear gas. One distraught resident asked bitterly, "If the military is so brave, why don't they fight other countries--why do they attack the people?" And while the police and the army were booed and pelted with debris, the crowd cheered the arrival of the marines--who had fraternized with protesters who forced out Suharto in May--thus prompting wild visions of civil war. On Saturday, as thousands of protesters headed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Specter of Revolution | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

Three million people in this theater. Or so it felt. Easily half of them full of hopes the other half couldn't meet. Enough real stones on the dames to dam a stream, enough fake smiles between them to damn a soul. I wanted to be there about as much as I wanted to be on a Boeing flying into the Eiffel Tower. But Big Ben had made it clear that it would be in the best interest of my natural teeth, and as I needed those pearlies to bite the bullet that I knew was heading...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hardboiled 'Angels' is Delicious | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

...delights. Indeed, as you eagerly tore open wrapping paper, you revealed a gray compact box, two squarish, unwieldy controllers, a zapper gun, and the ultimate in cartridges: "Super Mario Bros." with "Duck Hunt." 8-bit utopia was yours! That first night, you tried desperately to shoot all of those damn ducks, and rescue Princess Toadstool from the clutches of the evil Bowser. In the soft glow of the T.V. screen, your face was radiant and peaceful...

Author: By Annie K. Zaleski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: GROWING UP CYBER | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...mentality: Damn, she's cute. He's never heard a thing about her room, but would love the opportunity to stop by. Signal: He likes...

Author: By Richard S. Gipstein, | Title: He Said She Said | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

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