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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Not bad for a guy who went for his first audition at 15 to chase a girl, Amy, who was sweet on his older brother. Hoffman grew up in suburban Rochester, N.Y., a baseball jock who often attended regional-theater productions with his mother. "When I was in, like, seventh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing the Margins | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Hundreds of works are on view, all of the Whitney's rooms and corridors crammed with pieces dating from AbEx to those practically yanked off the walls of today's downtown galleries. Yet nowhere is the primal battle pitted so bluntly as in the opening salvos on the top two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Creative Chaos | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Clinical trials are research studies on human patients to test the safety and effectiveness of new treatments. There are hundreds of clinical cancer trials under way, involving thousands of patients. What most people don't realize is that the scientists who conduct these studies need test subjects almost as badly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Find a Trial | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Externalists, who tend toward the political left, say that America's racial problems are to be addressed through outside interventions (affirmative action, busing and other government programs to repair the damage of the past and enforce racial justice). Internalists, who are apt to be conservative, stress solutions that require efforts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Indignant Sanity | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Is there a Headless Horseman? Then he'd better cut off some heads--heads that, when detached by the whoosh of the Horseman's blade, go spinning, rolling, bobbing as if each were a top, a bowling ball, a Halloween apple on its way from Hollow to hell. (The terminally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tim Burton's Tricky Treat | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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