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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Theater is an unfair business," Hood explains simply. "Minorities inevitably will not have equal opportunities in casting because most plays are written for a white realist audience...

Author: By Frankie J. Petrosino, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ARTS EXPOSE: Something Rotten in the State of Harvard Theater | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

Indeed, her bipartisan tone leads one former Bush official to note that Rice could have ended up working for a Democratic administration. But Rice would rather see her beloved Stanford football team lose than work for a Democrat. By both upbringing and philosophy, she is a committed Republican realist in the tradition of Kissinger, Scowcroft and Colin Powell. Rice's father, a university administrator, joined the G.O.P. in 1952, at a time when Dixiecrats still ruled the South. In 1960 the six-year-old Rice went into a voting booth and instructed her mother to "pull the elephant." Her mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Condi Rice Can't Lose | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...still, his family (or part of it) was there, and the look of the town and its people delighted the great realist. He wrote to James Tissot, a fellow painter, enthusiastically about "villas with columns in different styles...negroes in old clothes...rosy white children in black arms, charabancs or omnibuses drawn by mules, the tall funnels of the steamboats towering at the end of the main street... Everything is beautiful in this world of people." But, he typically added, one Paris laundress with bare arms "is worth it all for such a pronounced Parisian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Impressionist Abroad | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...also developed the theme of the urban-rural divide in contemporary India, and indulged Rushdie's preference for the magical realist genre...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rushdie Reads, Jokes For Square Audience | 5/12/1999 | See Source »

...also developed the theme of the urban-rural divide in contemporary India, and indulged Rushdie's preference for the magical realist genre...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Salman Rushdie Reads, Jokes for Square Audience | 5/12/1999 | See Source »

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