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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anything redeems Dying Young, it is the playing. Roberts has a bead on the twentysomething spirit -- its curious blend of certainty and confusion -- and Scott catches the inwardness and detachment of a figure astonished to find himself exploring the near side of the far side prematurely. The cool tact of his performance is all the more effective for its understatement and -- just what this picture needs -- its total lack of predictability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Designated Heroine | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

Despite his offensive remarks and occasional lapses in tact, John R. Silber would be an effective and innovative governor, Cambridge's state senator told a small audience yesterday at the Institute of Politics...

Author: By Matthew A. Light, | Title: State Senator Endorses Silber at K-School Talk | 11/3/1990 | See Source »

...said that despite Silber's want of tact he would still support "a front-room leader instead of a back-room negotiator...

Author: By Matthew A. Light, | Title: State Senator Endorses Silber at K-School Talk | 11/3/1990 | See Source »

Sheldon's ridiculous sense of timing and utter lack of tact are the source of countless laughs, but Sheldon is also the source of the play's most poignant moment--the scene in which he recalls witnessing a lynching when he was 9 years old. Copeland plays the scene with a powerful sincerity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Black C.A.S.T.'s 'Trouble in Mind' Provides a Guarantee of Laughter | 4/27/1990 | See Source »

...PLACES YOU'LL GO! by Dr. Seuss (Random House; $12.95). Eighty-six- year-old Dr. Seuss continues to rhyme with reason in book No. 43, an illustrated philosophy lesson about bouncing back that contains the sage advice, "Be sure when you step./ Step with care and great tact/ and remember that Life's/ a Great Balancing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Apr. 16, 1990 | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

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