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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? The question is not exactly new, but it has rarely been posed more deftly and disarmingly than in the 21st work of the wistful comedist A.R. Gurney, whose best previous plays (Sweet Sue, Love Letters) also centered on the disruptive consequences of love unpursued. Gurney is often pegged as an elegist for the waning Wasp. In Later Life he makes great efforts to usher in characters outside that stereotype. They are Irish, Jewish, Texan and techno-nerd; one woman is a lesbian, one man gay, and these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paralyzed by Caution | 6/14/1993 | See Source »

...much/ I love you too much." He brings equal ardor to Two Hearts, a Latin-tinged Valentine levitated by his soaring falsetto, and a stirring remake of Neil Diamond's Solitary Man, which he transforms into an existential anthem for tough-yet-sensitive guys. When Isaak sings, "Me and Sue -- that died too," his voice almost cracks with manly anguish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rockabilly Heartthrob | 6/14/1993 | See Source »

...Johnson) alternately delighting in Sir Charles' abandon and trying to rein him in. When Barkley published his autobiography last year -- Outrageous! -- he compared some of his teammates' skills unfavorably with those of his grandmother and then, turning on his ghostwriter, threatened to become the first person in history to sue himself for libel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Round Mound in the Heavens | 6/14/1993 | See Source »

ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, David Bjerklie, Val Castronovo, Mary McC. Fernandez, Georgia Harbison, Ratu Kamlani, Sue Raffety, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Susanne Washburn, Linda Young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead | 6/14/1993 | See Source »

Supreme Court lets her sue over a Wheel parody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Jun. 14, 1993 | 6/14/1993 | See Source »

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