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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intensely emotional and articulate cry for those oppressed by their gender, race or sexuality to fight a society that excludes their voices. While skewering criticism that her music is too angry and political, DiFranco's songs have also responded to attacks from extremely possessive listeners who expect her to maintain an image appropriate to their favorite raging Ani DiFranco song. They may know all the words, but how hard do such fans really listen? The same kids who cheered a girl who screamed "FUCK THEM!" in the middle of "Little Plastic Castle" ("People talk/About my image/Like I come...

Author: By Diane W. Lewis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ani-body Listening? | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

Monfett scored off the opening face-off as Brown stepped up the pressure the defensive half. Harvard was unable to maintain possession of the ball, and Brown capitalized on the ball, and Brown capitalized on the sloppy play for two more goals to make...

Author: By Meredith M. Bagley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Second-Half Slide Sinks M. Lax, 10-7 | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

They were recently inducted into the Radio Hallof Fame and maintain a syndicated newspaper columncalled "Click and Clack Talk Cars" as well as aWeb site...

Author: By Matthew G.H. Chun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: `Car Talk' Hosts to Speak at MIT | 4/14/1999 | See Source »

...hope that the two would work together to create an agenda which addressed both student services and politically-charged issues. Contrary to the declared "apolitical" platform of last year's council leadership, we--along with the students who elected Seton and Redmond into office--believed the council could still maintain its commitment to SpringFest and frozen yogurt even as it engaged issues which happened to be political or controversial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Politicize the Council | 4/13/1999 | See Source »

...lost love is a self-destructive genius. Her new husband is a fussbudget academic. Caught between them, Annette Bening's tragic heroine suffers a kind of influenza of the soul--fevers and chills alternating while she tries to maintain her politesse in provincial society. This is risky work for a movie star, but Bening's understated tension is admirable, and so is Jon Robin Baitz's new adaptation, touching Ibsen's glum dramaturgy with rueful Chekovian absurdity. Daniel Sullivan's brisk production, running through mid-April at Los Angeles' Geffen Playhouse, is full of lively performances bobbing eccentrically along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Hedda Gabler | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

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