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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the Pros, and John McPhee wrote the classic tennis portraits (of Clark Graebner and Arthur Ashe) in Levels of the Game. Feinstein had the opportunity to write a book that would stand with these, but he is flat where he should be funny, and unevocative where he should sketch scenes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Balls And Brats | 9/2/1991 | See Source »

...content to showcase Robin Givens' pert charms. And Michael Schultz's Livin' Large!, a kind of Homeboy Alone, hatches broad but pointed comedy from the perspective of a black street reporter (Terrence (("T.C.")) Carson) who lands a job with an all-white news team. But most of the films sketch, in furious strokes, a portrait of the ghetto and of its most feared and hopeless denizen, the black male...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boyz Of New Black City | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

...random walk -- no cause, no effect and no harm done -- with the author's mischievous grin taking the curse off a detectable undertone of "Ain't I cute!" Getting non sequiturs to tail up like circus elephants doesn't always work, even if the paragraphs are amusing. In a sketch called Blumenthal on the Air, an American disk jockey for some reason is based in Paris and unaccountably burdened with a surly Iranian wife. He broods murkily without enlightenment, and so does the reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Circus Boy: A MODEL WORLD AND OTHER STORIES by Michael Chabon | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

Cantor derived the title from a famous sketch by Arshile Gorky because he felt that Gorky's motive behind the drawing--the remaking of the self in art to overcome sadness--mirrors the purpose of the book. However, Cantor does little remaking of anything; he merely expounds on the injustices of conservatives and the scars left on our generation by the Vietnam...

Author: By P. GREGORY Maravilla, | Title: Stale Philosophy Hinders Giving Birth | 4/5/1991 | See Source »

...American press corps is not really that dumb. But the sketch on NBC's Saturday Night Live struck a responsive chord. In the realm of ridicule, it was a telling symbol: TV's hip, anti-Establishment comedy series chose for its satirical target, instead of a stiff-backed military leader or a bumbling president, the not-so-gentle men and women of the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Just Whose Side Are They On? | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

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