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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bayreuth audience is unique. Every one of the 1,925 seats is occupied by someone who knows his Wagner and has cast-iron confidence in his opinions. This summer has been the hottest in a century, and the theater is not air conditioned. While the music plays, the crowd sits still and silent; a sneeze brings savage stares. At the curtain call, though, reaction is unbridled. Virtue is rewarded with thunderous stamping on the wooden floors; lapses with lusty booing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Gods and Gold | 8/15/1994 | See Source »

...predicament of a Los Angeles hangout called Bar Deluxe shows the problem in miniature. It had found the right location for a hip outpost -- a seedy Hollywood neighborhood, surrounded by crack dealers on corners and prostitutes strolling the pavement. And the right decor -- heavy black iron gates and a garbage bin next to the door. In no time, it got crowds. But not even six months after its January opening, disaster struck: an enthusiastic write-up in the Los Angeles Times. Owner Janice DeSoto expects to survive the blow, but she knows there will be a price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If Everyone Is Hip . . . Is Anyone Hip? | 8/8/1994 | See Source »

...mole Aldrich Ames said he betrayed U.S. agents behind the Iron Curtain for money and also because he wanted to shorten the cold war by "leveling the playing field," according to a report in the New York Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week July 24-30 | 8/8/1994 | See Source »

...Forest Lawn and the earthquakes, the misery of the city"s black ghettos, the unspeakable wealth of Beverly Hills. As a writer seeking to capture the spirit of place, Peter Theroux is a kinder, gentler clone of his older brother Paul (The Happy Isles of Oceania, Riding the Iron Rooster.) . For all their sparkle, the latter's travel books are suffused with a sour misanthropy : the natives are usually too noisy or too smelly or otherwise lacking in the finer human attributes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Wide Eyed in La-La Land | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

...previous decades, he said, "the world as we knew it in economic term ended at the Iron Curtain. Now, the world is round again...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Former Seattle Mayor Royer Speaks at IOP | 7/22/1994 | See Source »

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