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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be best, of course, if you were a player, a singer, a fellow musician. But with luck and fine timing, you could also be a casual guest, a dinner companion, a colleague's spouse--even, if the furies were snoozing, a journalist. In 1988 Sinatra, the paragon of show-biz sangfroid, told Larry King, "I swear on my mother's soul, the first four or five seconds, I tremble every time I take the step and I walk out of the wing onto the stage, because I wonder if it will be there when I go for the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Put Your Dreams Away: FRANK SINATRA, 1915-1998 | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

...absurd waste of time to an absurd waste of money, as well. With walkie-talkie headsets and wrist blasters, "Assassin" troopers aspire toward Boba Fett (dude, that was so stupid how he died; I couldn't believe it, he was such a badass) but remain definitely Playskool. The paragon of dorkiness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: groovytrain | 4/16/1998 | See Source »

...undergraduate student in the mid-1960s,Georgi says his master in Eliot House, John H.Finley '25, was a paragon of leadership--devotinga great deal of personal attention to students andmemorizing each resident's name...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Physicist Georgi, Wife Named New Leverett House Masters | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...fact, it is these small idiosyncrasies that make us identify with her and compel us to keep coming back for more. Without them, she might very well stand as a more ideal role model for young women. But would we identify or empathize with a paragon of social and professional virtue and excellence? No, probably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deconstructing Ally | 2/12/1998 | See Source »

...image reinforced, perhaps overdone, by slinking movements and exaggerated gestures. As their victim, Lavinia, Zimmett grows more like them in her thirst for revenge--which she manages to convey without uttering a word. Interestingly, even in the beginning, Zimmett makes it clear that Lavinia isn't quite the paragon of innocence and virtue we might expect: there's an amusing non-verbal interplay between her and Tamora, in which she leaves no doubts as to her opinion of the barbarian prisoner...

Author: By Lynn Y. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eerie 'Titus' Ushers in Halloween at Adams | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

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