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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...usual, excellent. He makes a potentially unlikable and thorny man human and sympathetic. Sam Neill, who originally wanted to play the part of Baines, is particularly fine in the role of Stewart, a good man who loses his head because of jealousy and passion. Here Neill has a role meatier than that of the paleontologist he played in "Jurassic Park." He lives up to the possibilities of the role...

Author: By Joel Villasenor-ruiz, | Title: Campion's 'Piano' Plays at the Brattle | 8/5/1994 | See Source »

...makes a potentially unlikable and thorny man human and sympathetic. Sam Neill, who originally wanted to play the part of Baines, is particularly fine in the role of Stewart, a good man who loses his head because of jealousy and passion. Here Neill has a role that is considerably meatier than the paleontologist he played in "Jurassic Park," and he lives up to the possibilities of the role...

Author: By Joel Villasenor-ruiz, | Title: Play It Again, Jane. | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

...native of St. Petersberg, Florida, Bassett, 34, went to Yale Drama School and spent most of her first professional decade shuttling unnoticed between Broadway (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom), television (Tour of Duty) and movies (John Sayles' City of Hope). The roles grew meatier -- she played the mother of a troubled ghetto youth in Boyz 'N the Hood and Michael Jackson's mom in abc's The Jacksons: An American Dream -- but she still labored in the shadows until Tina thrust her onto center stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of the Shadows at Last | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

...result is a bloody conflict rooted in questions of family background ambition and Journalistic ethics, making Judgement call more than a more suspense thriller. Wetlaufer says she hopes the book is "meatier" than other books of its genre...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Judgment Call of Reporters, Drug Dealers, Ethics and Ambition | 7/10/1992 | See Source »

Pheasant under glass seems an unlikely entree to gain popularity during the frugal 1990s. But Henry Saglio, the owner of Connecticut's Grayledge-Avian Farms, wants to make pheasant more proletarian. Back in the 1940s, Saglio's Arbor Acres farm raised some of the first of the meatier and cheaper white chickens that became a diet staple. For the past five years, he has been perfecting a broad-breasted breed of pheasant that is meatier and more tender than its wild brethren in the hope of popularizing that fowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poultry: A Bird with An Attitude | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

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