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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wooden posts mark the ground where, in 1945, historian Roland Robbins discovered the remains of Thoreau's home. Nearby is a sign describing the cabin's appearance and its fate after Thoreau left Walden. The building was dismantled before 1850; its roof was put on a pigsty...

Author: By Jennifer L. Hanson, | Title: Our Very Own Walden Pond | 11/30/1993 | See Source »

...finds room for Hamlet or The Master Builder -- although even Rodgers and Hammerstein did not confuse themselves with Shakespeare and Ibsen. The pleasure can be the same whether the effort is a shrine built to the original, as in 1990's unimaginative but impeccable reproduction of Fiddler on the Roof, or a piece of fey revisionism such as 1992's cartoon reconception of Guys and Dolls, which turned into the hottest ticket in town and helped spark this season's spate. Sometimes a revival is so extensive it's treated as new, like 1992's Crazy for You, a loose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forward to The Past | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

...Bobbitt, who, although acquitted of marital sexual assault last week, may never, as they say, be whole again. Despite the bloodletting, the Bobbitts are less Greek tragedy than downmarket War of the Roses. The onetime bouncer and the struggling beautician had been trapped with each other under the same roof and over the same barrel -- until last June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swift Sword of Justice | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

After cutting a hole through the roof of Sweden's Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, thieves walked away with $75 million worth of uninsured artworks by Picasso and Georges Braque.The stolen paintings and bronze sculpture are extremely well known, so whoever took them will never be able to display or sell them openly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week November 7-13 | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

Cozza, who will coach the Elis today, wascrushed by the tie. "We literally knocked Harvardall over the lot until the very end, then to havethe roof cave in. We all felt like we lost thegame," he said...

Author: By Jonathan N. Axelrod, | Title: `The Tie' Marks 25th Anniversary Harvard Won | 11/20/1993 | See Source »

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