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No problem. Fans got two games for the price of one the following night. This week life in the minor leagues is all that baseball fans in serious need of a fix are going to get. Venal owners and petulant players in the majors should take note. This is baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: The Only Game in Town | 8/22/1994 | See Source »

Zelman delivers a very tight performance throughout the play. His facial expressions show the ignorance, earnestness and anger of his character. Essentially the play revolves around Gus and his constant waffling on about where they are going, whether there's football match to be seen, etc. etc. With his sincere...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Intense, Satiric 'Waiter' Carried By Strong Acting | 7/8/1994 | See Source »

Virtue is active, responsible and inner-directed. The atmosphere now encourages petulant passivity and other-directedness. Some of the most important virtues (self-discipline, courage, responsibility) require self- abnegation -- and nothing is further from the spirit of an age that regards self-abnegation as an offense against self-fulfillment, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Search for Virtues | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

Not so, a gaggle of hawkish Senators, who quickly denounced the Russians and clamored for a cut-off of foreign aid. The tacit recognition of the ubiquity of spying, it seems, has turned into petulant indignation, while at the same time, the vigilant oversight that characterized the Cold War has...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Spies Like Always | 3/5/1994 | See Source »

Witness relies heavily on courtroom tension between the defense and the prosecuting attorney. Unfortunately, Michael Wertheim plays the prosecutor more as a petulant child than as a true force with which to be reckoned. Wertheim compromises the credibility and austerity of his character by stumbling through and forgetting many of...

Author: By Ariel Foxman, | Title: Witness Guilty of Slow Pacing | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

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