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...Berdo complements the technical perfection of their steps with an intensity of emotion that draws the audience to a breaking point as Tatiana pulls Onegin across the stage only to fall on his chest. In the end, however, her loyalty to her husband prevails, and in a sad twist of fate, she rips up Onegin's letter and with a pained expression points to the door. As Onegin leaves, Tatiana stands desolate, head and eyes lifted upward and arms stretched down by her sides...

Author: By Christiana Briggs, | Title: escape from social RHYME or REASON | 2/13/1997 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, D.C.: One of the Whitewater scandal's most flamboyant characters has added a new twist to the story by changing his story, again. President Clinton's former friend and business partner Jim McDougal tells federal investigators that Clinton knew about an illegal loan issued to his then-wife Susan. According to the New Yorker magazine, McDougal now backs David Hale's story that Clinton pressured him to make a $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal. That's a departure from what both McDougal and Clinton testified under oath last year, when McDougal and former Arkansas governor Jim Guy Tucker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Whitewater Partner Recants | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...next twist comes with the identity of the Congressman; Republican leadership sources tell TIME they strongly suspect Jim McDermott, ranking Democrat on the ethics committee. A committee source, interviewed by TIME, claims to have overheard McDermott talking to a Florida couple, who insisted on giving him a package in person. House Republican leaders say they have learned that McDermott discussed the conference call with special counsel James Cole before any news of the call appeared in public. They insisted that the call had not violated any deal and quickly went on the offensive, charging that intentionally intercepting and taping private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWT'S DAY OF DELIVERANCE | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

Back too is the lush, year-end holiday party but with a '90s twist: quiet consumption, meaning that the posh hotels and clubs swell with revelers, the Cristal champagne ($190 a bottle) still flows, but gone are the ostentatious soirees of yore. Not unlike a Jil Sander suit: it's sleek, simple and elegant, but it still costs about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULL BONUS BONANZA | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...Faces" knows exactly what it is--a cheesy romantic comedy--and it follows this classic, comforting formula to the letter: boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, boy is an idiot, boy loses girl, boy and girl get back together. Streisand, however, adds her own 90's twist--no sex. This little curveball does exactly nothing to divert the film from the romantic formula, but, aside from discouraging most of the male audience, it does accomplish one other significant feat: It makes the movie a whole hell of a lot funnier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boy Meets Girl, Boy Loses Girl, But They Don't Have Sex | 12/12/1996 | See Source »

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