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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other hand, Mark Fish, playing Algernon Moncrieff, seemed completely at home. Although he could have tried for a little more eye contact with whomever he was talking to, and although his diction seemed a little muffled, these points did not disturb the audience's credulity...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Being Earnest at Leverett | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

According to Gallant, any work that would disturb the asbestos fibers is done in a containment chamber which seals the work area from the rest of the building...

Author: By Rebecca M. Wand, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Elevators Open to Public | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...rearrangement that created the magic, more than the things themselves. "Our secret desire," he remarked, "is for a change in the order of things, and it is appeased by the vision of a new order . . . The fate of an object in which we had no interest suddenly begins to disturb us." Turned balusters, game pieces, the little round horse bells known as grelots, cut-out paper doilies, wood paneling, views through a window, fire, a birdcage, a rifle, a tuba, a pipe, loaves of bread, a naked woman: there wasn't much in Magritte's repertoire of images that couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Poker-Faced Enchanter | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

...from Florida. Dave Aronberg was his name, and despite the fact that he had already announced his candidacy for the Undergraduate Council, he appeared to share some of my interests. But Chaz's mother insisted that I room with her son; the other roommates were too loud and would disturb his studying, she worried...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Confessions of a Wait-Listed First-Year | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

Shows like Julia and I Spy (which teamed Bill Cosby with Robert Culp) succeeded by spotlighting black people who were fully assimilable -- the sort of blacks who, as one critic notes, "could move into your neighborhood and not disturb you at all." Ghetto comedies of the '70s like Good Times did a better job of reflecting black life, but they were betrayed by buffoonery (Jimmie Walker's strutting J.J.). Roots, of course, brought the black experience to a wider audience than any other show before or since, but its popularity, the documentary notes, came only by making slavery acceptable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Many Shades Of Black | 6/15/1992 | See Source »

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