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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Playwright Wendy Wasserstein exudes a fuzzy warmness that belies an ambitious and successful career in the theater. Her play Uncommon Women and Others, starring Jill Eikenberry, Swoosie Kurtz, and Glenn Close, was produced off-Broadway when she was 27. She received half a dozen awards for The Heidi Chronicles five years ago, including the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award (the first ever given to a woman dramatist without a male collaborator). Her latest, The Sisters Rosensweig, which received an Outer Critics Circle Award and Tony nomination on Broadway, opens in Boston today. In a conversation with The Harvard Crimson...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, | Title: WENDY WASSERSTEIN | 1/26/1994 | See Source »

...have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of seeing St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the "Xian myth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/19/1994 | See Source »

...hardly uncommon. Many parents look for any possible scapegoat for their children's behavior--ignoring their own culpability. And in the search to lay blame, television is an easy target...

Author: By Raine N. Reyes, | Title: Television Only Shares the Blame | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

...think attempts occur that often,"Murphy said. "I'd have to say this is uncommon...

Author: By Leondra R. Kruger, | Title: Three Attempted Suicides Reported | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

...help local governments hire more cops -- are the kind of specious gestures that are made whenever Washington tries to tap into voter sentiment on what is largely a state-and-local issue. If adopted in its present form, the bill will extend the death penalty to 47 mostly uncommon crimes and create 60 new federal crimes for acts that are already punished by state law. Among the offenses that will now be punishable by death: Fatal violence occurring on maritime platforms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Shots At Crime | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

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