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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film gives keen insight into the state of social medicine in England. Horribly ineffecient and terribly ineffective, the masses of patients seem to be talked at and never listened to. If the Republican party ever used this film for propaganda purposes, Clinton's health plan would be killed instantly...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Summer's Gift Will Touch Your Heart | 8/5/1994 | See Source »

...varies from James Brown to the gospel troup Blind Boys from Alabama. It goes from funk to jazz to rock-n-roll to country. But all of these are not subsets of the Blues. I suppose they are considered to be the Blues if they exhibit, in Robert Earl Keen, Jr.'s words, "that long and lonesome feeling," whatever that may be. The most intriguing part about the Blues, in the end, is that it defies definition. And the full spectrum was shown and heard at Franklin Park...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: BLUES FOR ZOOS | 7/22/1994 | See Source »

...bunting and flags were hung about, and the city cleaned itself and put out flowers and swept bums under the rug. Outside those who stood to turn a dollar (about 200 million of them were expected to be spent in Chicago during the event) and who therefore were keen on the sport, an air of polite interest invested the town. The atmosphere was reported similar in eight other American venues where the Cup competition commenced after the Chicago opening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An American Spectator | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

...saddened at losing some keen advisorswhose active engagement and diverse opinions onimportant and controversial issues have made thisone of the most valued councils ever," Knowlessaid...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: Faculty Elects 7 To Council | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...editorial in Barron's, the financial weekly, Joe Queenan ridiculed Jett's insidious appreciation of European culture: "Accused Kidder trader was a fan of Nietzsche, for goodness sake." Queenan's amusing editorial argued that the only difference between Jett and all other Wall Street traders was Jett's keen interest in Nietzschean philosophy...

Author: By Brad EDWARD White, | Title: The Human Piranha | 5/4/1994 | See Source »

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