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Like most teenagers, Kissin is a romantic at heart, though his still rather narrow repertoire includes Mozart and Haydn as well as Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich. In Amsterdam last year he was scheduled to play the Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1, even though the piece had by then become boring for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Evgeni Kissin, New Kid | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

Diehard 2 is a little more lighthearted than the first movie, but thankfully doesn't degenerate into camp. The opening fight in the airport baggage-handling area confirms your worst suspicions about the real reason luggage tagged for Atlanta winds up in Anchorage. Unlike the heros of some adventure movies...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: 'Diehard 2': Still True to Its Gory-ful Mission | 7/6/1990 | See Source »

Yet her biggest feat is finding a few innocuous ways of bringing up the generally unpalatable subject of class in America. Growing economic polarization, she argues, has made the professional class, which is inherently insecure, more smug and selfish. Much of her evidence involves incidental, sometimes lighthearted perceptions about how...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Class Act | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

There are plenty of reasons to stage a major Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' most erotic, bedroom-centered play -- the power and vinegar of its language, the timelessness of its obsession with money, the candor and subtlety of its homosexual subtheme -- but only one reason why it actually happened. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Just What the Doctor Ordered | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

After a lighthearted debate on Monday night, the Lowell House Committee decided to ban interhouse between noon and 12:20 p.m. and one and 1:20 p.m. on weekdays. During this period, Lowell residents will be permitted one lunch guest each, and no other outsiders will be allowed.

Author: By Jennifer R. Boyle, | Title: Lowell Moves to Curb Lengthy Lunch Lines | 2/28/1990 | See Source »

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