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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baryshnikov was grateful for this quiet boost from a master whose work always looks like a million, whether on Broadway or Pennsylvania Avenue. As for dancing Suite, he says, "I think it's all about Jerry -- a man leaning on one leg and listening, wondering, 'O.K., what's next?' There's irony and urgency and also a bittersweet quality. This is a man of intelligence, a man of the world, a thinking man." But lest that serious thought prevail, he adds with a twinkle, "Sometimes I think Jerry's inspiration comes out of his beard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANCE: Thoroughly Modern Misha | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

Reality: The courtyard is quiet on the weekends as residents head to final club parties or overhyped speeches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First-year House Tours | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

...took time for the quiet yeshiva boy to become first the militant follower of the extremist, hate-mongering Rabbi Meir Kahane; then the Israeli doctor who so detested Arabs he called them Nazis; and finally the killer who fired round after round into a terrified crowd of people at prayer. As he lived among the most vitriolic fringe elements of the Israeli settlers in the West Bank -- many of whom began their lives, like him, as Americans -- Goldstein's religion became indistinguishable from his rage. This was not a sweet and generous doctor who suddenly snapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Making of a Murderous Fanatic | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

Another finding, she said, is that shyness is more common in females than in males. Arcus said that this gender discrepancy may be caused by the fact that girls "appear to be socialized to be more timid, quiet, and introverted...

Author: By Laurie A. Sheflin, | Title: Research Links Narrow Faces to Shyness | 3/5/1994 | See Source »

...then the hook, and then "I knew we'd done to very different schools..." The compact "guitar also," when it comes, is a deliberately squeaky, pathos-filled echo of the triumphant 70s lust you'd be likely to find at the end of a Cheap Trick song, the Sugargliders' quiet aplomb here as everywhere on the album, sounds like the product of diminished expectations, sounds resigned and hopeful at the same time. Anyone to whom that attitude appeals will be likely to find, and love, it in the delicately ironized pop songs collected on this splendid long-player...

Author: By Steve L. Burt, | Title: Two Brothers from the Southern Hemisphere | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

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