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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well can anyone ever know another person," Bradley asks, "if they only know that person in a public context?" We're sitting on the second floor of a cheerful bookshop in North Conway, N.H., sparring about the politician's obligation to reveal himself. Though Bradley's speeches trumpet bits of his glittering biography, he hates surrendering his story to others--especially to reporters who, he feels, take "snippets" and use them to draw wild conclusions. I ask if people have a right to learn about those who would be President. "That's more so today than any other time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Being Bradley | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...musical odyssey began early. My father, a trumpet player in the People's Liberation Army, began teaching me when I was 14. My tastes were strictly classical. In 1981 I joined the Beijing Symphony Orchestra and played in it for seven years. Things began to change in 1985, though, when the group Wham! gave a concert in Beijing. A year later, I heard my first Beatles tape. I learned to play an electric guitar. After that 1986 concert, I formed a band and made rock my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Idol: The Spirit Lives In Rock 'n' Roll | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...Lamb tried to do both, but fell somewhat short. The exuberance of the band was undeniable, with the overlaying drums, bass and trumpet adding immediacy, but the live touches all seemed rather incidental. Davy, for example, sounded like he was playing samples--live, to be sure, but the same notes to be found on the album. A couple of Thorne's bass solos were nice touches, as was Barlow's delight in distorting Rhodes's voice, but most of the tracks were indistinguishable from their studio counterparts. Lamb make excellent pop songs, but, judging from Saturday's show, there really...

Author: By Dan Visel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Concert Review: Living Large With Lamb Live | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...Wall Street Journal reports, the makers of Rogaine are putting a new, happy face on their product, pitching it as a preventive measure to men who simply want to hang on to the hair they?ve got. ?Rogaine? trumpet the latest ads, ?Stronger than heredity.? The marketing mavens at Pharmacia & Upjohn may be onto an elemental truth: Men who are worried about losing their hair are far more obsessive about their scalps than men who have actually stared into the shiny face of baldness. And in the ongoing tradition of avoidance, this new marketing tack allows men who harbor dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hair Today, Hair Tomorrow? | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...question of whether to trumpet or downplay one's Harvard ties when running for office comes up "all the time," according to Professor Philip R. Sharp of the John F. Kennedy School of Government...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Political Asset? | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

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