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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gropes at and pleads suggestively for Merlyn to "Come, come," they might as well be addressing Pippin. What is true for some of the staging is true for some of the melodies as well. The music to King Ambrosius' "Worlds Doubting Me" and some intermittent bars in Act One echo tunes from Les Miserables...

Author: By Ariel Foxman, | Title: Awkward Adolescence | 11/18/1993 | See Source »

...cinematography is beautiful; the sunsets, waterway and beach scenes echo the point that the film is making about beauty, truth and wholesomeness. The slow pace of the film and the dialogue is evocative of small-town Southern life. Often the detail is excrutiating. By the end of the film, the audience probably remembers a few too many colorful, tacky items of merchandise for sale at Chamber's. The camera often drags and makes us impatient with this meticulous attention to detail. When we see Mike's library, the camera pauses too long at the bookshelves and overemphasizes the point that...

Author: By Deborah E. Kopald, | Title: 'Ruby' Almost a Gem | 11/18/1993 | See Source »

...interviews the rappers play hide-and-seek, sometimes claiming that the tough-guy poses are just the work of artists assuming a character, other times bragging that their bad-boy credentials are for real. Both things can be true. Caught up in the echo chamber of pop culture, rappers can hear their own songs egging them on to their old mayhem, even as their record sales lift them out of the ghetto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shootin' Up the Charts | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

Next week, when many school-board seats are again contested around the country, the right will be looking for signs that their grass-roots strategy is having a reverberation nationwide. Even if the echo proves disappointing, the Christian foot soldiers plan to continue exploiting dissatisfaction with the nation's schools in hopes of finding common cause with moderates and conventional conservatives. Looking ahead to more significant electoral battles in 1994, when voters in Idaho, Colorado and Arizona will address education issues at the ballot box, Ralph Reed, executive director of Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition, vows, "We'll be there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crusade for the Classroom | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

...Thursday Clinton met in the morning with congressional leaders, who engaged him in spirited but mostly constructive debate. The most common complaint was that the U.S. had no vital interests in Somalia; Clinton replied, in an odd echo of the kind of arguments he might surely have rejected as a Vietnam War protester, that the vital interest at stake was the credibility of American power: the U.S. could not just cut and run. Leaving the meeting, some lawmakers gave reporters the idea that Clinton would delay his projected speech to the nation -- which prompted the White House to hurry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Somalia: Anatomy of a Disaster | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

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