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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knightly entourage is not the same as Arthur fans may remember, either. Agravaine is the only familiar name Connery's Arthur speaks. And while Sirs Gawain and Gareth are in the film's credits, they are unidentified during the movie, and Sir Lamorack, Sir Bors and Sir Pellinore are absent from this retelling...

Author: By Alison D. Overholt, | Title: Connery Shines As King Arthur | 7/11/1995 | See Source »

...stations across the country. Ballot boxes turned up in the oddest places: stacked on street corners, stashed beneath poll workers' beds, tossed into ravines. But such irregularities are one thing; the gunshots, screams and sirens that have traditionally attended mass action in Haiti are another, and they were notably absent from this election. In a country that had known only dictatorship and political bloodshed for 200 years, something heartening had occurred: a peaceful exercise in democracy. Only after the voting took place did violence erupt, when one candidate shot and killed his opponent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: THUMBS UP, HALFWAYS | 7/10/1995 | See Source »

...major federal enforcement agencies even as the workload is expanding due to the passage of new anti-discrimination laws, mainly theAmericans with Disabilities Act. The four Republican appointees to the panel said they would not have released the report, which Democrats approved when three GOP members were absent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVIL RIGHTS . . . TAKE A NUMBER | 6/23/1995 | See Source »

...gardener of the old school will argue that there are three essential pieces of gardening equipment: expendable shoes, impenetrable gloves and a deep sense of humility at the chance to act as God's hands. Absent from that list: a pair of $585 leather-handled rose shears from Hermes; a $1,995 vip Robotic Solar Mower that cuts the lawn while you watch from a $595 replica of the benches at Giverny; and a Poopet, a lump of cow manure sculpted by the Pennsylvania Amish into "functional fecal friends" that will "nurture and decorate your garden for years to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER GARDENING | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

...burdens them with the entire bloody history of the 20th century. "Attempts to relate the madness of Vietnam to Hitler's evil are loopy," says Sheppard, and so is some of Conroy's rhetoric. The Pat Conroy who wrote "The Water Is Wide" and "The Great Santini" is conspicuously absent here, leaving "Beach Music" as nothing more than what is certain to be this summer's best-selling snack.Previous TIME DailyCampaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS . . . "BEACH MUSIC" | 6/16/1995 | See Source »

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