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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...depends on reaching an expanding audience. Walker flits gnomically through space and time to tell the story of an American family and its transformation from a repressed patriarchal unit to a spiritual sorority of free radicals. Fans of the well-focused The Color Purple may not appreciate Walker's looser style or such unintended crack-up lines as "...in the branches of the nearest tree lives the first cousin of your hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: By the Light of My Father's Smile | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...better. Both exemplify what people in my generation like to flatter ourselves is unique to rock 'n' roll and its offshoots: the immediacy, the idiosyncrasy, the genuineness of expression. Sinatra is the century's musical equipoise, the pivot between the carefully crafted pop of its beginning and the looser, fiercer sounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANK SINATRA: The Singer | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...program, but it prompted NBC to bring in a fresh executive producer, Neal Shapiro, who put the show on a winning road. Dateline spun stories off the day's news more often than its rivals (particularly on high-impact tabloid stories like O.J. Simpson and JonBenet Ramsey); had a looser, more viewer-friendly format, with regular features like Pauley's Timeline quizzes; and kept filling weak spots in NBC's schedule. This season three of Dateline's four weekly hours have often ranked among the Nielsen Top 20, and the show is reaching the youngest audience of any network newsmagazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The 10 O'Clock News | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...finally started swinging the bats well," Forst said. "Guys are looser at the plate, more patient, and we're swinging at good pitches...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Continues Torrid Streak, Wins 8-3 | 4/16/1998 | See Source »

...going to spend as much time as I can in the Olympic village," she declared firmly. "But I've got to focus on my own thing right now and do what's good for me." Conventional wisdom says that Kwan should have played it differently, a little looser perhaps. But she had lighter moments, visiting a Zenkoji temple and watching Harrison Ford kick butt in Air Force One hours before doing likewise in her short program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figure Skating: Back On Top | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

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