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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...producers of the Montel Williams show who she claims lured her on the program under false pretenses. Porter was invited believing she would be reunited with past loves. Instead Williams discussed on the air the abuse that Porter was allegedly suffering at the hands of her boyfriend. Then her sister appeared on the show to reveal that she was having an affair with Porter's boyfriend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAYING GET THE GUEST | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

...Peter Wood's staging, the play glides cinematically among Indian scenes, Flora's letters home, the scholar's footnotes and reminiscences by Das' son and Flora's surviving sister (Margaret Tyzack) to create a tenderly comic rumination on the ironies of history and colonialism, of creativity and eros-all unexpectedly mellow for the pyrotechnical Stoppard. Art Malik catches Das' contradictory yearnings, caught up in India's independence movement yet in thrall to Dickens and all things English. Felicity Kendall wittily and poignantly plays the free-spirited Flora, who shows Das that only by being true to himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST END STORY | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

...center of the universe," love that sort of thing. Jack, a dogged public-interest lawyer, falls hard for Burry. Before long he is doing dirty tricks for Early's henchmen and bungling them: he snaps a photo of an opponent's "mistress" who turns out to be his sister. At the time Jack's only thought was that the man could have done a lot better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARTY ANIMALS | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

Sacks frequently befriends the people in his care. He brings them souvenirs from his travels and calls long distance to see how they are doing. "He is probably the most caring, sensitive doctor that we have ever met," says Sister Theresa Robertson of New York City's Little Sisters of the Poor, a home for the aged. It's an unglamorous practice that Sacks maintains despite his considerable financial success. He has little regard for status. There are no diplomas on the walls of his Greenwich Village office. He has lost track of where his credentials are. Politics and organizations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OLIVER SACKS: HOUSE CALLS AT THE EDGE OF THE MIND | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

Though we have met each of her characters before, Sister Souljah's No Disrespect offers a lens to the rhythms and realities of young Black urban life, making her characters believable and impossible to dismiss, even when they aren't pretty to look...

Author: By G. ALISHA Davis, | Title: 'Respect' Due to Sister Baring Her Soul | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

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