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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unlike its Mayan counterparts, though, Teotihuacan has yielded very few inscriptions, and those are in a hieroglyphic language that archaeologists have not yet been able to decipher. The city's celebrated painted murals don't provide many clues either. "There are very few glimpses of daily life," complains Arizona State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: City Of The Gods | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

1 THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE For the first few minutes, it seems like a typical slice of Irish local color, full of overripe characters and accents you can barely decipher. But Martin McDonough's extraordinary play, about a mother and daughter testing each other's patience in a bleak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of 1998 Theater | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

Bainbridge's spare style ensures that her work is entirely free of sentimentality or melodrama. What she doesn't say becomes almost more important than what she does; readers are left to decipher the twisted relationships of the characters--the fact that Myrtle willingly bears George's children because his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mistress of Her Domain | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

Thankfully, Sondheim gives audiences a guide to understanding A Little Night Music right from the beginning. The wheelchair-bound matron Leonora Armfeldt (Lucy MacPhail '01) explains to her granddaughter (Kari Gauksheim '01) that people fall into three categories: the young, the fools and the old. MacPhail does a wonderful job...

Author: By Stephen G. Henry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Perplexing Play on Bergman; Perpetual Twilignt of a Swedish Summer | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

Fortunately, my roommate from New York was around to help me decipher the mystery of pitches, hits, low fastballs, line drives and home runs. But I would have understood the problem more quickly had baseball not been involved.

Author: By Radu Ban, | Title: Editorial Notebook | 11/4/1998 | See Source »

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