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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...common criticism of the NOVA project is that it is impossible to portray such a complex program fully in an hour of television...

Author: By Andrew D. Cohen, | Title: In the Limelight: Students in `New Pathway' | 1/18/1991 | See Source »

...connected to the gulf crisis. The Bush Administration could argue that the Arab-Israeli conflict needed to be dealt with anyway, a position consistent with well-established U.S. policy. But everyone would know the truth -- that the gulf crisis had precipitated the conference -- and Saddam would be able to portray himself as the hero of the Palestinians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf Options for Peace | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

...hopeless mess. Perestroika has been largely a matter of restructuring a ruin, a contradiction in terms that makes for a sorry spectacle. Yet the world is, as never before, invited to watch. Glasnost has led to a kind of reverse, and perverse, Potemkinism, a post-Soviet tendency to portray the situation as even worse than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: The General Secretary in His Labyrinth | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

...SHELTERING SKY. Bernardo Bertolucci has made a swank, sexy, bleak and very beautiful film from Paul Bowles' novel of a married couple on an existential quest for romantic catastrophe in North Africa. Debra Winger and John Malkovich powerfully portray the forlorn souls who languish under the desert's pitiless grandeur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 10, 1990 | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

...director makes a bleak, beautiful film of Paul Bowles' celebrated novel. Debra Winger and John Malkovich powerfully portray a pair of existential tourists in North Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Dec. 3, 1990 | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

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