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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suit has since been dismissed, but the charges live on, putting the city in an uproar and prompting a new look at racism in baseball. Atlanta Braves executive Hank Aaron called for an investigation. The N.A.A.C.P. hopes to use the controversy to compel Schott to hire more minorities; of 45 front-office staff, only one Red is black. Jesse Jackson has talked with Schott and wants to discuss hiring practices with other baseball-team owners as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marge's Mouth | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

...From Hank to Hendrix," he sings, "I walked these streets with you/Here I am with this old guitar/Doin' what...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: New Movies | 11/12/1992 | See Source »

...gleefully bumbling doctor straight out of vaudeville. Nance Williamson as Lee is a perfectly caffeinated, bleached blonde graduate from cosmetology school. Mary Diveny's Ruth, unfocused, distracted, nearly helpless, is compassionately endearing. Mark Rosenthal's sincerity renders eloquent even the rather generic words of the rebellious teenager Hank: "people start thinking of you a certain way--and pretty soon you're there...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Humor in Death and Dying | 11/5/1992 | See Source »

Director David Petrarca is meticulously attentive to the strengths of both the text and the actors. The scene between Bessie and Hank on a warm Florida night and the one between Hank, his mother, and his psychiatrist at the mental institution, are beautifully staged. Petrarca directed the world premiere of Marvin's Room in 1991 at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, where he is currently resident director, and then continued with the show to the Hartford Stage Company, Playwrights Horizons, off-Broadway at the Minetta Lane Theatre, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Humor in Death and Dying | 11/5/1992 | See Source »

...style, to Dylan's debut album, but the performances have 30 years of rough roads and lively living to underscore them. His version of Stephen Foster's Hard Times Come Again No More has a lifetime's impacted melancholy and sense of fragile hope. Similarly, Neil Young's From Hank to Hendrix, about a man who measures all the seminal events of his personal history against a pop panorama, has both a youthful brio and a hard-won autumnal perspective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing Folk Back Home | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

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