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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quite a blessing. We sighed a big breath of relief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPEAK | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...Stephens (Ian Holm) a man who chases settlements with a chills-and-fever passion that can be explained not by greed but by the suppurating wounds life has inflicted on him. The man, whom Holm plays with superbly controlled fanaticism, wants compensation from an unfair universe but finds momentary relief in squeezing more readily available targets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SHORT TAKES: THE SWEET HEREAFTER | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...private sector to hire a new commissioner. It took to referring to taxpayers as customers. It has even managed to serve up what may be the government's best Website--the Digital Daily--which touts Problem Solving Day as "a new way to work with taxpayers to provide effective relief from the headache, fever, and that all-over achy feeling that accompanies long-standing tax problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WE WORK FOR YOU! | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

Fahey's family met last week's news with a mixture of relief and "absolute horror." Says her sister, Kathleen Fahey-Hosey, 37: "I'm numb. We always suspected that Anne Marie was disposed of at sea, but once you hear the details, it's gruesome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROTHERS IN CRIME | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...interacting. He beams like a bridegroom, embarrassed but already certain of his prize. Fortunately both the fated lovers sing better than they act, delivering consistently competent, and sometimes lovely passages. However, neither lead ever wins the audience's heart. The end of Dido, and of Dido, comes as a relief to us--also no doubt to the actors, whose jaws and cheeks must surely be sore with so much smiling...

Author: By Adriane N. Giebel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Disappointing 'Dido' Dies Early at PfoHo | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

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