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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...because of the economic turmoil, the implementation will take much longer than MMI anticipated, Zhurek said...

Author: By Timothy E. Bazzle, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Continues Program in Moscow | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

...began writing poems in her childhood but decided, once she understood her parents' renown, to keep them private "for the obvious reason that comparisons would be made." Instead, after a period of adolescent turmoil--anorexia, an impulsive and brief marriage to a biker at age 19--Hughes became a painter and an author of children's books. Eventually, she settled in Wooroloo, "a small hamlet, very small," in Australia, to paint landscapes of the stark, almost surreal terrain. And, as it happened, to write poetry that other people might read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Birth of a Poet | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...turmoil caused by Clinton, Ken Starr and Henry Hyde's band of cowboys has resulted in more weakening, discord, divisiveness and pain in our government and the U.S. than any number of terrorist attacks. BO NEWELL Nellysford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 19, 1998 | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...there is still the nagging sense that the movie is unable to grasp the true inner conflict of her character. Without the novelist's luxury of being able to enter a character's head, Beloved is only able to deliver a skin-deep version of Sethe, one whose subconscious turmoil is never clearly evident...

Author: By Bill Gienapp, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Beloved' Spreads Its Boughs | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...fall from grace." Blending descriptions of the decadence of the New York affluent with block quotes from people who claim to have been close to Basquiat, the biography at least succeeds in giving a reader a sense of the hypocricy and egoism that must have caused Basquiat such emotional turmoil. In the end, the book leaves the reader with a greater understanding of Basquiat's circumstances and environment, but not so much an understanding of the man himself...

Author: By V. MICHELLE Mcewen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Idol Gossip: 'Basquiat' Skims the Surface of the Iconoclast | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

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