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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ironically, in an age proud of its toughness, this new production lacks even some of the mild bite of the original. Robert Morse, who created the role of Finch, was an equivocal presence. With his gap-toothed, tilted grin and his air of scrounging narcissism, Morse was simultaneously magnetic and faintly unsettling. You had to sympathize with his fellow executives, just a little, when they sang, "Got to stop that man . or he'll stop me." Broderick, on the other hand, is so beguiling that you are delighted when he becomes chairman of the board and heartened to hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOARDROOM BOUND | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

...entire cast (this is the greatest staging challenge in an piece where almost all the characters are present from start to finish). Moreover, he exhibits the same control in his own acting. In a role that invites excess, Saccente is all understatement. He achieves more with a grin or a wink than a lesser actor would with a flurry of gesticulations...

Author: By John D. Shepherd, | Title: Dunster House Scales Puccini | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

...like to be sincere but then I'd look like an even bigger idiot," said Hanks with a grin. "Still...not bad for someone who didn't finish Sacramento State...

Author: By Victoria E.M. Cain, | Title: Hanks Receives Pudding Award | 2/22/1995 | See Source »

...will raise the $250,000 needed to move its transmitter by the end of the summer, the ideal solution would be for Harvard to subsidize the expense now so that its current and future students might sleep in peace. It is simply inexcusable that we should be forced to grin and bear this constant noise. John a. Dooley '96 Andrew M. Popper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRB Ignores Costs of Problems | 2/21/1995 | See Source »

Bellson's concentration never broke throughout the tune; his vibrant eyes stared constantly at the drums, pausing once or twice to cue in other members of the group and never looking at the audience until the tune's end. Now and then, an almost childish grin passed over Bellson's face as he whipped up a firestorm of percussive sound...

Author: By Young-ho Yoon, | Title: Bellson's Jazz Drums Through the Blue Note | 2/9/1995 | See Source »

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