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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plot does not, however, manage to explain the closing French Can-Can kickline and Wizard of Oz sequence, which have literally nothing to do with each other, the plot, the Victorian era or the '70s. (My guess is that the writers associate the 1939 movie with their childhood, and so with the '70s period as a whole.) But you can't change every stupid tradition at once, and this fresh, fun production has more going for it than any Pudding show I've seen...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: Pudding Heights | 2/21/1990 | See Source »

...community can explain its objection to the displayer of the rebel flag, he might be persuaded to move it from a picture window to an inside wall. This solution would allow the student to fulfill his original purpose of regional representation while sparing others the undesirable overtones of bigotry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: When Free Speech Hurts | 2/20/1990 | See Source »

SINCE the opening of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent torrent of change in the Eastern Bloc, experts have advanced scores of theories to explain the rise of freedom. Economists cite the inherent inefficiency of central planning, while the Right credits the Reagan military buildup with forcing Gorbachev to back down. The press, enamored of Gorbachev, credits his foresight and "vision" with Eastern Europe's new found freedom...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: Did Prayer Bring Down the Wall? | 2/17/1990 | See Source »

Tomassoni is going to get the job. He'd better, or else Harvard will lose one of its most promising coaches. But he shouldn't have to explain that his close friend gave...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Tomassoni Is a 'Very, Very, Very, Very, Very Leading Candidate' | 2/15/1990 | See Source »

...think we have a very important mission," Wilson said. "I want to describe that and explain that to our friends...

Author: By Jonathan M. Berlin, | Title: Wilson Inauguration Planned | 2/9/1990 | See Source »

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