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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...graduate of Mount Holyoke and Radcliffe, Adair in her green years was considered a poet of promise. Thanks in part to the demands of marriage (in 1937 to the historian Douglass Adair Jr.), motherhood and teaching, she stopped publishing but kept on writing. Literary fame meant nothing; her delight was in the solitary pleasure of creation. The 87 poems in Ants on the Melon are a fraction of her oeuvre, which runs into the thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: ELEGANT FIZZ BY A POETS' POET | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

...graduate of Mount Holyoke and Radcliffe, Virginia Adair in her green years was considered a poet of promise. Thanks in part to the demands of marriage (in 1937 to the historian Douglass Adair Jr.), motherhood and teaching, she stopped publishing but kept on writing. Literary fame meant nothing; her delight was in the solitary pleasure of creation. The 87 poems in 'Ants on the Melon' are a fraction of her oeuvre, which runs into the thousands. Occasional verse for such magazines as the Atlantic and the New Yorker has earned Adair in recent years a coterie of fans (other poets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Doing Well By Doing Good' | 5/19/1996 | See Source »

...afternoon, the four members of Hootie & the Blowfish--singer Darius Rucker, guitarist Mark Bryan, bassist Dean Felber and Sonefeld--leave the small bar where they have been hiding/waiting/drinking and head to a tent behind the stage where they are scheduled to perform. The crowd begins murmuring in delight and shock as word spreads that the band is backstage. A chant builds: Hoot-ie! Hoot-ie! But just then--and, if you're a student of outdoor rock festivals, you knew this would happen--it begins to rain. Hard. Noah's ark hard. But at this point, there is no turning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: CAN 13 MILLION HOOTIE FANS REALLY BE WRONG? | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...entire company glided and twirled across the stage with nothing short of perfection, but Pollyana Ribeiro and Viktor Plotnikov, in particular, captured the audience's gaze and adoration. Their enormous ranges of talent--from suave sophistication to "get-down" showiness and from poignant emotion to joyful enthusiasm--was a delight to behold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEARNING TO LOVETT | 4/4/1996 | See Source »

...some, the occasion brought squeals of delight. For others, the morning confirmed their worst fears...

Author: By Connie Chang, | Title: Hear Ye, Hear Ye | 3/22/1996 | See Source »

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