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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movement, but this seems almost a mistake on Berlioz's part, as the tenor's voice is completely drowned out by the women's voices and the orchestra. The third movement, written for orchestra alone, is a sad, reflective reminiscence on the dead Orpheus. This musical interlude seems somehow odd and unfitting to the piece, following two movements of passion and action...

Author: By Felicia Wu, | Title: Berlioz Blitz Rocks Symphony Hall | 1/30/1997 | See Source »

Then a singularly odd thing happens: some guy appears on screen claiming to be Ernest Hemingway, and, before long -- look! -- there's a nurse, too, heaving and healing...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: O'Donnell Too Small for Hemingway's Shoes | 1/30/1997 | See Source »

They make an odd couple, White and Favre, the preacher and the former playboy, the city mouse and the country mouse. But they have a genuine liking for each other that goes beyond the fact that they're two Southerners stuck in the tundra. During a photo session last week, White nuzzled Favre's ear, causing the quarterback to say, "Reginald, please. What if I were to come home to Deanna and tell her I was leaving her for another man? Actually, if I told her it was you, she might say, 'Reggie? Oh, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEADERS OF THE PACK | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

That's been a boon to people like Renee Buckley, 27, who last month began work at an Intel chip plant after several semesters at Maricopa, where the company paid her $2,100-a-year tuition. A 1988 high-school grad, she had worked odd jobs and studied to be a nurse before lighting on microchips. "I wanted a good job in a growing field," she says. "This now looks like the most promising job I've ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHERE THE JOBS ARE | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

...incidental, a prop for his rich characterizations and astute social observations. In Fishin', Easy emerges as an Everyman of the segregated pre-World War II rural South: semiliterate, marginally employed, the victim of numerous acts of offhand racism. He inhabits a blues-toned, all-black world of juke joints, odd jobs and broken people wrestling with the same dilemma: "If all you got is two po'k chops an' ten chirren, what you gonna do?" The answer: improvise and live with the consequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: EASY'S EARLY DAYS | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

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