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As the title character, Hilsabeck is truly nothing short of phenomenal. The screaming, angst-ridden lunatic he portrays running around in the depths of a theater send chills down the spine of even the most placid audience member. Yet the same Phantom sings such rich, warm ballads of love to...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, | Title: 'Phantom of the Opera' Is Still Phantastic After All This Time | 7/30/1996 | See Source »

Our bias is even evident in the poster animals for the animal rights movement. How many rats have been used in speeches to evoke compassion? Most of the animals we think of in research are primates and rabbits. Yet federal agencies estimate that of the 17 to 22 million animals...

Author: By Tanya Dutta, | Title: Animal Activists Go Too Far | 7/16/1996 | See Source »

For one thing, at the national level the disparity between rich and poor is increasingly felt across the country, resulting from the unchecked avarice of the wealthy and their apparent lack of compassion for the poor who are reacting with disguntlement. The business sector is bigger, stronger and more intrusive...

Author: By Ben Tahriri, | Title: Needed: President for the United States | 6/25/1996 | See Source »

LAWRENCE LERITZ, 43; NEW YORK CITY; actor Leritz, in conjunction with Hollywood Supports, has led the "Day of Compassion" project, winning commitments from local, cable and network producers to gear one day's programming toward aids-related topics. On June 21, more than 100 talk shows, daytime dramas and news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jun. 24, 1996 | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

Nevertheless, he painted his first masterpiece in 1869-70, a portrait of his fellow painter from Aix, Achille Emperaire, with his dwarf's body and weak mantis limbs, enthroned--there is no other word for its weirdly authoritarian effect--in a high-backed chair upholstered in floral chintz. Painted darkly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: MODERNISM'S PATRIARCH | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

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