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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What exactly makes this ballet dull is difficult to pinpoint. The costumes are absolutely marvelous. Much attention has been paid to even the smallest details--so much attention, in fact, that it becomes difficult for an audience member several feet away to truly appreciate all of the workmanship put into making them...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, | Title: Somnolent 'Beauty' at Boston Ballet | 5/17/1996 | See Source »

...gathered at a botanical garden in Grand Rapids, Michigan. With a Presbyterian minister presiding, Crane, 31, a high school music director, and his lover of four years, Randy Block, 36, affirmed their love and exchanged gold rings. Almost immediately the religious right directed its ire at Crane with the pinpoint accuracy of a laser-guided missile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE UNMARRYING KIND | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...Fenway Park, having chased down a wayward foul ball to the cheers of the other fans in the park, having watched baseball on a Thursday afternoon. The only thing missing was a peanut guy who could hurl a bag of nuts across four rows of people with pinpoint accuracy...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: Beautiful Game | 4/19/1996 | See Source »

Once the single SRSV virus strain was identified, the researchers aimed to pinpoint its source...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Study Sheds New Light On Dining Hall Illness | 4/3/1996 | See Source »

...style, the two heads of this campaign's bitterest rivalry are not so much fire and ice as ice and ice. Businesslike but affable, Reed, 35, is efficiency personified. His desk is so meticulously organized that he can pinpoint an individual document in the stacks of neatly piled papers. Pale and intense, Dal Col, 39, resembles a 15th century monk in a Renaissance painting. Yes, he too is efficient ("Both Scott and I make lists of lists," he says), but Dal Col is strung a little tighter. "He never loses his temper," Dal Col says of Reed. "I sometimes blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HANDS ON, HANDS OFF: MANAGING THE BIG GUYS | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

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