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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...naive as Truman. The show is also pretty tame. Unlike most daytime-drama characters, Truman is a faithful husband who has no evil twin and does not suffer bouts of amnesia. For 30 years the show has been a pageant of placidity, a hypoallergenic soap opera where the tension is in the subtext. Will he find out? How's it going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Smile! Your Life's On TV | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...took that same fine-tuned tension and sense of challenge with him every time he cut a side. Out of the 1,414 studio recordings he made, and despite the hundreds of glories he left behind--from I'll Never Smile Again of 1940 to Hey Look, No Crying of 1981--there were songs that eluded him till the end. Studio outtakes and bootlegs show him chiding the arranger, bugging the conductor, riding the band and beating up on himself with a good-humored swagger that doesn't hide the disappointment and frustration that are chewing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Put Your Dreams Away: FRANK SINATRA, 1915-1998 | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

...tension increased between the police and theprotesters Friday afternoon, three students werearrested for resisting...

Author: By Sarah E. Henrickson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UCLA Protests Carnesale's Reticence on 209 | 5/20/1998 | See Source »

...biggest help is to try to use humor, forseveral reasons, the biggest of which is to try torelieve some tension," says Gorman. "I like itwhen I see people smile...

Author: By Paul K. Nitze, | Title: Where Do All Those Harvard Proctors Go? | 5/20/1998 | See Source »

...music is too conservative," said KatherineD. Earls '00 of the Eliot fete. "I'm trying to getdown and...to release some tension that's beenstored up writing all these lame papers. I feellike my father in there...

Author: By Pam Wasserstein, | Title: A Night to Remember | 5/8/1998 | See Source »

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