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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fogg drops his straight-laced lifestyle and starts to dance the hot Spanish number performed in the third scene, throwing all propriety, consistency, and logic to the wind. A balloon holding Gitano comes crashing with great bravado like a deus ex machina through the roof of the stage, and, with a load of Irish children, a Chinese dragon, and a cheerleader, the grand finale is performed as a bewildering spectacle of confusion. Like a ride through "It's a Small World," Eighty Days is choppy but full of energy, disappointing on the order of the musical but impressive...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Eighty Days: Strong Music, Weak Musical | 5/14/1993 | See Source »

...acts like any other professional with a demanding, brain-crushing job. Her office in the West Wing is one of the least imposing, furnished with a blue-beige-and-red-striped sofa, a table submerged in paper, a small desk and a window looking out on a red tile roof. Hillary writes her own notes, has a cellular phone glued to her ear and makes many of her own calls. She goes through paperwork like butter, scribbling in the margins of the mail, trying not to touch the same piece twice. Says her deputy, Melanne Verveer: "I'm efficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At The Center Of POWER | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the perpetrators were busying stashing the Fu dog on the Adams House roof between the dining hall and B-entry, DiCiccio said...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Adams Fu Dog Loses Right Ear | 5/5/1993 | See Source »

When search did not turn up the dog, DiCiccio and other party-goers returned to Adams, only to find the suspected thieves, who had removed the Fu dog from the roof, running with the object down DeWolfe street, students said...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Adams Fu Dog Loses Right Ear | 5/5/1993 | See Source »

...view in the past quarter-century. In his later years (he died in 1976) Calder seemed dull and overexposed. Nobody could love and only a hurricane could budge the red mobile that hangs, like a glider beefed up to the size of a DC-3, from the roof of the East Building of Washington's National Gallery of Art. Calder's genius in the '20s and '30s was for making extraordinarily delicate and literally "wiry" sculptures that danced at a breath. However close you got to them, they still seemed distant in their fragility; in extreme cases, like the wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Iron Age Of Sculpture | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

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