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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sometimes the most precious moments are the times when we just don't know how to react--those isolated moments when we sit on a precipice between insane laughter and a flood of tears, not knowing how to respond rationally to an extraordinarily moving situation. This complicated mix of emotions is elicited by many milestones in the passing of a lifetime: falling in love, marriage, a new dead baby, A new dead baby? Well, yes, according to Christopher Durang. In his wacky, witty and surprisingly moving play, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, now playing at the Hasty Pudding Theater...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In `Bette and Boo,' Everything's Relative | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

These artists improvised individually, "swapping fours," harmonizing with elegance. Ravi teased the audience by halting the music once, only to flash a smile and trigger coy laughter from the crowd, which included students from the Berkeley School of Music, Boston University and Harvard...

Author: By Nicole A. Lopez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Coltrane Tradition | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...Likhovtseva, then 21, at Wimbledon in 1997. Hordes of hormonal boys were in the stands screaming "Come on, Horni-kova!" says Shriver as she only too happily recalls extending the younger team to a long third set before finally losing. And was Kournikova gracious in victory? Shriver bellows in laughter, "I'm sorry, but I don't think she knows the meaning of the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Are You Calling An Old Lady? | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

...used to hearing about these sordid things these days that nothing shocks us anymore," said Weinlein, the neighbor, "and it's sad." She cast her eyes around. "Pretty soon it's going to be old news. Things will go on as usual," she said, then broke into laughter. "But right now, well--it's like that O.J. Simpson deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Little Whorehouse In Jersey | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

...hilarious blasphemy in itself--give Augustine the chance to bust into the scene as a hormonally-charged babushka with a bottle of liquor tucked into "her" panties, a moment so completely off-tempo with the rest of the act that one can't help screaming with laughter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slav-er-iffic! | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

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