Word: withing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1988). It might seem hard to wring interest or suspense out of a love story that has been stalled for more than 50 years by the inconvenience of the woman's happy marriage to someone else. Garcia Marquez does so...
U2: Rattle and Hum (Island, 1988). In which the rockers with the decade's biggest reach and most tender conscience discovered America, and outdid themselves, besting even their breakthrough The Joshua Tree album of 1987.
John Adams: Nixon in China (Nonesuch, 1988). The decade's most exhilarating and accomplished new opera: a waltz across the Great Wall with Dick, Pat, Henry, Mao and his missus.
Jerome Kern: Show Boat (Angel/EMI, 1988). With a cast that boasted the likes of mezzo Frederica von Stade, the landmark American musical was revealed for what it is: a landmark American opera as well.
In political terms, he came from nowhere: a well-bred landowner's son and former governor from the tropical hinterland who compared himself with Jimmy Carter. The similarities do not go far: like Carter, he ran against the federal government, tilting at its waste and mismanagement, but when it came...