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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government and in marriages like his own. As an exemplar of the new South, he has dealt with blacks and gays, as well as good ole boys and businessmen, on a daily basis with mutual respect. And unlike any other prominent Democrat since Jimmy Carter, he is not tone deaf to the religious chords that can help bind American society. Not only does he know how to clap on the back-beat of gospel hymns, he also draws unabashed strength from his Baptist upbringing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Time for Courage | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

...enjoy it. "Vampires are lucky," observes the cop's junkie girlfriend (co-screenwriter Zoe Lund). "They can feed on others. We gotta eat away at ourselves." Bad Lieutenant is a serious film about the gnawing of conscience and the thirst for redemption, but the tone is so dispassionately vile it may leave viewers shaken or sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adding Kick To the Chic | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

...controversial" ad campaign, to our staging of the play. I am aware of the nature of the Crimson's reviews; these are reviews of amateur theater by amateur reporters. Despite this obvious amateurism on the part of the Crimson staff, there is no excuse for the distinctly unprofessional tone of recent reviews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dutchman Review Amateurish | 11/12/1992 | See Source »

...when I began my third meditation of the weekend, my "monkey mind," as the monks call it, began to tone down. I was squirming and dreaming of their organic, vegan carrot soup instead of counting my breaths one through ten and getting lost somewhere around four...

Author: By M.k. Hoffman, | Title: Endpaper | 11/12/1992 | See Source »

Sophomore Rachel Heit said this first loss set the tone for the Crimson's weekend...

Author: By Patty W. Seo, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Bleeding Doesn't Stop for W. Spikers | 11/10/1992 | See Source »

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