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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shields' book is fascinating, if not engrossing, and there are glimmers of truth and insights offered in this highly intellectualized package. It is unfortunate, though, that something as beautiful as language and something as poignant and painful as its failings were etherized and dissected on a obviously talented writer's table...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: Despite Glimmers of Wit, A Novel That's Overdone | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

Whatever the biological or social truth of Wolves, the novel's artistic conviction cannot be separated from its language, a private brew of nuance, unexpected humor and explosive strength that can already be quickly and appreciatively distinguished as the Chase style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beasty Boys | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

AMULETS AGAINST THE DRAGON FORCES. Paul Zindel's off-Broadway play about a self-destructive alcoholic and a neurotic but winsome adolescent is superbly played, and its melodramatic excess sings like pure truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 8, 1989 | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

AMULETS AGAINST THE DRAGON FORCES. Paul Zindel's off-Broadway play about a self-destructive alcoholic and a neurotic but winsome adolescent is superbly acted, and its melodramatic excess sings like pure truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 1, 1989 | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...expert on baseball, but I know that Major League is a lot of fun. The baseball parts are exciting, the locker-room antics are funny and the love parts, as the veteran catcher trys to get back together with hisex-wife, contain an element of truth...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Taking a Swing at the Movies | 4/29/1989 | See Source »

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