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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...March sisters navigate the passage from girlhood to womanhood with grace, spirit and infinite appeal in Gillian Armstrong's passionate realization of the 19th century children's classic. Winona Ryder leads an entrancing cast in a family film that interrupts our pious pratings about "family values" to say something truthful and unsentimental on the subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Cinema of 1994 | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

...deserves to. For director Gillian Armstrong and writer Robin Swicord have fashioned an entrancing film from this distinctly unfashionable classic. They do not so much dramatize the passage of the four March sisters from girlhood to womanhood as let it unfold. Over the years the sisters must cope with a father's absence (when he's not off fighting the Civil War, he's lost in philosophical musings), a mother's bustling idealism, romances appropriate and inappropriate, the constant threat of poverty and illness. Eventually Jo (the luminous Winona Ryder) embraces art and an older man (Gabriel Byrne); Meg (Trini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Transcendental Meditation | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...that Raul is taking the lead on economic policy, "he is once again a serious political player," says Gillian Gunn, head of Georgetown University's Cuba Project. Raul personally replaced half the Communist Party's first secretaries in the provinces this summer with young, pro-army party men. "To the average Cuban it looks like Raul has taken over, with Fidel held for special occasions, public relations and international events," says a party member. Some political analysts in Havana even talk of Fidel becoming a figurehead and letting others carry out reforms the staunch communist finds repugnant. Of course, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raul Castro: Fidel's Brother Sets Up Shop | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

...Gillian Martin-Sorenson, undersecretary generaland policy adviser to the real United Nations,gave a keynote speech to the delegates at thestart of the conference

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, | Title: 2,000 Attend Local Model U.N. Event | 2/23/1994 | See Source »

Senior Anne Sherwood, who scored three goals last Saturday and is the top playmaker in Princeton history, leads a Wiley offensive unit, which includes senior Gillian Thompson (fifth in all-time scoring for the Tigers) and sophomore Kim Simons (three goals against Temple...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Lax Heads to Promised Land: Final Four | 5/15/1992 | See Source »

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