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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That's because you don't get around much--not, anyway, to London or Leeds or Los Angeles or other theater venues where McKellen has illuminated the stage for nearly four decades, torched it with his wily intelligence, seduced it with the precision of his plummy voice. He has dwelt inside Hamlet, Romeo, Coriolanus, Richard II and Richard III (in his version, a purring, reptilian gangster), caressed the mood of wistful doom in Chekhov, played Captain Hook and Inspector Hound and, in Bent, a gay man in a Nazi camp. But except for Richard III, which he brilliantly reimagined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sir Ian McKellen: Ready for His Closeup | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...lives a spectator sport. They see no reason to explain this, and neither does this defiantly noncommittal film. At the start, for example, Eddie is already exhibiting himself for money. We don't learn why he and Amber and Rollergirl descended into the netherworld of sexual showmanship; they have dwelt in that Valley from the start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: DIRK DIGGLER: A STAR IS PORN | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR WILLIAM Weld is puzzled. State unemployment is falling, and incomes are rising. Yet in the State of the State message he delivered two weeks ago, the Republican Governor dwelt on the "insecurity people feel in their work lives and about their futures." Said Weld: "Many of you have wondered, 'When are things going to get better for me and my family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF THE UNION: ARE WE BETTER OFF? | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

After Kwasniewski's win, messages of congratulations poured in from many nations, including the members of nato and the E.U. None dwelt on his party past. "It's not the background or the personal experience of the candidates, it is the policies that they will pursue in the future," said Mike McCurry, the White House spokesman. "And on that point, President-elect Kwasniewski has been very clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DROP MARX, GO FOR THE SOUND BITE | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

...President's speech, which lasted approximately thirty minutes, dwelt on the complexity of Greece's role in international affairs in the Balkans. He focused on the regions of Macedonia and Cyprus as trouble spots for the Hellenic Republic...

Author: By Emily J. Wood, | Title: Greek President Speaks on Role In Balkan Crisis | 10/20/1995 | See Source »

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