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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stravinsky premieres his ballet The Rite of Spring in Paris, setting the audience into a riotous frenzy with his rhythms--violent syncopation, sudden changes of meter, "barbaric" repetitions--subverting everyone's expectations for a predictable and reassuring beat. We are but a moment from Wozzeck (1925) and on the way to banishing tonality itself from opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Arts: 100 Years Of Attitude | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...Igor Stravinsky (1930) This reaffirmation of the glory of God begins in astringent lamentation and ends in radiant certitude. RUNNERS-UP String Quartet in F Major by Maurice Ravel; Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of The Century | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Mighty America Online just signed up to help pass out the punch. Last week Wal-Mart and AOL confirmed plans to launch a co-branded, low-cost Internet service by next spring. In-store kiosks will help introduce shopping at wal-mart.com--and probably the new ISP--to the yet-untapped market strolling Wal-Mart's aisles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waiting for Wal-Mart | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...decades now, especially in the past couple of years, black actors have complained about being snubbed for starring roles on TV. So after the TV networks announced their fall lineups last spring, Kweisi Mfume arrived in Hollywood with his own script proposal. The N.A.A.C.P. president cast himself as the leading man, a swaggering yet politically correct Terminator of all things racist about Tinseltown. His first mission: to strong-arm the networks into hiring more minorities to work in front of and behind the cameras. Mfume's early salvos had the fire of civil rights rhetoric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ending the Whitewash | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...YOUR ACCOUNT At tax time next spring, be sure to review your 1999 medical expenses. Self-employed individuals and employees of companies with 50 or fewer workers have until April 15 to make tax-free contributions to medical savings accounts, which can be used with high-deductible health plans to pay medical costs. "You want to make sure you've contributed the maximum allowable," says Jack Strayer of the National Center for Policy Analysis. The ceilings range from $2,250 for individuals to $4,500 for families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Dec. 27, 1999 | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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