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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many of her peers, Smith's poems seem more interested in art than in the artist, more curious about exploring details than about dissecting political issues or laying the poet's life on the page. Her life follows a similar pattern: She comes across as affable, always smiling, quiet, but her friends claim that her still waters not only run deep, but aren't that still to begin with. "She's not shy," says one. "She's crazy, actually...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: Her Poetry Comes From Ordinary Life | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...some insight into the way the right things don't get done in the council: "I have not done what I knew before was right, nor made friends with people whose principles I understood and respected because I was afraid it would hurt me and alienate me from the quiet power struggles that happen behind the scenes in this council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Fitting End To The U.C.'s Year | 6/7/1994 | See Source »

...quiet year...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: Can A House Divided Stand? | 6/7/1994 | See Source »

Scuffing dry leaves along brick pavements, in our saddle shoes or loafers, we never passed huge, funny-angled buildings. Around us lay a quaint and quiet village of woodframehomes--many elegantly gracious on tree-shadedlawns. Peaceful--except that, somewhere else, awar was going...

Author: By Sylvia Maynard, | Title: Class of '44 Grads Reflect on Impact of War on College Life | 6/7/1994 | See Source »

...while, everything was so quiet. The first week or so of the 12-day Cannes Film Festival proceeded as sedately as a Riviera quilting bee. Nice little films from odd little countries made some brief impression on the 30,000 assembled producers, distributors and journalists, only to be filed away and forgotten. Celebrities of the high second rank -- France's Isabelle Adjani, Britain's Terence Stamp, China's Gong Li -- stopped by to promote their films and to underline, by their presence, the absence of any world- class megastars except for Clint Eastwood, who was serving as president of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saturday Night Fever | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

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