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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stewart defended the council and blamed itsinability to secure Sister Hazel on its"continuing and debilitating funding problem...

Author: By James Y. Stern, | Title: Council Nixes Sister Hazel | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...proposed a solution to these fundingissues, asking the council to invest $15,000 ofthe money slated for Sister Hazel to create anendowment for the council...

Author: By James Y. Stern, | Title: Council Nixes Sister Hazel | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

Check it out! Man walks down that street so fine. Strides easy. Long, looking right. Left then. Then ahead, then left...snap!...again, follows that little sister in the tight pants a ways, then back on the beam. Arms arc. Could be some old trainman, swinging an imaginary lantern in the night. Smiling. Stepping so smart. Rolls, almost. Swings his butt like he's shifting gears in a swivel chair. Weight stays, sways, in his hips. Shoulders, straight, shift with the strut. High and light. Street's all his, past doubt. And more, if he wants. Could be he might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1973-1980 Limits | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...Gayl sat under suicide watch in a mental hospital, her brother attempted an explanation. "I'm sure you realize my brother-in-law was insane," said Franklin Jones. His sister, he said, had been dashing toward literary stardom "until she met him." And so it seemed. In 1975, the 25-year-old Gayl stunned the literary world with Corregidora, a fiercely written novel about incest, slavery and abuse. Jones mined the same brutal field in Eva's Man, in which the protagonist bites off a man's penis. Toni Morrison was her editor; John Updike praised her work. Another book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Saddest Story | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...like to give my opinion of the Kokoschka picture of my sister. I think it's a hideous mess. As great an artist as this man may be today, he certainly goofed in 1926. My sister is a very pretty girl. FRED ASTAIRE Beverly Hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sounding Off, Talking Back | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

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