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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fitch himself gives a stunning performance, most notably as the surreal singer/TV announcer. He is hilarious, truly strange and apparently in his element. As the man who makes the monkey puppet dance, Fitch is captivating and wonderful...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: Montage of Different Realities | 10/31/1991 | See Source »

...save money there will, of course, be trade-offs. Heart transplants that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, extend the lives of almost no one, and take away valuable resources from vastly more beneficial, if banal, activities like prenatal care, will be cut. Rationing will become an open element of the system. But the rationing will move away from its nasty classism toward a more rational ageism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Curing All Our Nation's Ill | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

After that moment of a capella regeneration, Jennifer Light's solo in "I Want a Monster" added a crucial element of demented wackiness to the jam, and Emeline Brown's soprano in "The Circle Game" drew hoots of appreciation from a crowd tingling with delight...

Author: By Daniel J. Sharfstein, | Title: This Jam Was Not Stuck in Traffic | 10/17/1991 | See Source »

Other officials said they expect a quiet year, as pre-Regatta publicity has emphasized the competitive over the social element of the race...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: Inauguration, Head Security Tight | 10/15/1991 | See Source »

...want to say that a man can't possibly do a childbirth scene." Lili Zanuck, whose Rush is said to be about as tough as movies come, thinks crime drama somehow suits her. "You want to tell a story you can tell best," and she likes "the reality, the element of factual truth" in Rush. Besides, she believes that the movie has strong box-office possibilities. "If you've got a commercial movie," she says, cutting to the chase, "no one cares who you are or where you come from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's New Directions | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

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