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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ottawa is also the capital city of Canada. Muchsmaller than the larger cities of Toronto andMontreal, the passion for hockey nevertheless runsjust as strong, the inept NHL Senatorsnotwithstanding. And in a climate where skating isa life skill, it comes as no surprise to learnthat Baird began learning the tools his adoptedtrade at the ripe old age of three...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Finishing in Style: The Class of '94 | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

...Nights. Its dour attitude and grungy visual style are an antidote to Hollywood's reductive take on AIDS stories. Collard, who died of aids last year, a few days before his film was awarded a Cesar (France's Oscar) for Best Picture, comes across as a director showing real skill with his young cast, and as a skulkily seductive actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: C'est La Mort | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

Like any other skill, good teaching obviouslyinvolves talent, professors, TFs and studentsagree. "Good teachers can be both born and made,"Knowles says...

Author: By Virginia A. Triant, | Title: How Well Does the Faculty Train TFs? | 3/2/1994 | See Source »

Because there isn't much plot to speak of, the success of the Pudding depends on the actors' ability to make their one-dimensional characters consistently funny and interesting. Fortunately, through clever stage business and vocal skill, most of them are successful. Fish is hilarious as repetitive Ramses Pointacross...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Kicklines at the Colosseum | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

This does not speak, however, to the unforced skill with which the star manipulates his 52 assistants. A masterly marksman, he can scale an ordinary playing card across the stage with such force that it pierces a watermelon, and can rocket a card to decapitate a plastic duck. He can make a card rise from the deck as if by levitation, or tear one up and make it reappear whole. In Jay's supple hands, what is commonly known as a card trick is something approaching art. To watch him work a deck is to see him write haiku...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tricky Ricky | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

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