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Dates: during 1990-1999
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It was no accident that Travis Tritt sang, in the convention's closing hymn, "I wish I could turn the clock back/to the way my daddy said it was before." Nor that the most powerful moment of Bob Dole's acceptance speech came when he invoked the honor of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVENTION '96: A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR HELPS THE MEDICINE GO DOWN | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

In all the ventures that followed, Reeve brought the earnest student's desire to learn and a self-described and often self-lamented perfectionism. It is hard to tell whether his approach to things is a product of what he concedes to be a "control-freak" tendency or of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW HOPES, NEW DREAMS | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

Reeve often speaks of the accident as a "failure," an instant of "humiliation and embarrassment." He says, "I used to worry when I was making Superman that I'd mess up. You know: SUPERMAN HIT BY BUS. That in a headline." He is inclined to be hard on himself. "In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW HOPES, NEW DREAMS | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Why can't Johnny smoke? Because President Clinton says so, that's why. Clinton declared tobacco an addictive drug today, saying cigarette marketing which produced an epidemic of young smokers was "no accident." Also no accident, the presidential timing. The FDA had a slew of stricter rules on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smoke And Mirrors | 8/25/1996 | See Source »

Whether the victims of flight 800 met their end through an accident or a despicable act of terrorism is not the issue. The real disaster is the loss of 230 lives and with them the happiness of the thousands who held them close. Whatever the cause, this is truly the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters:: Aug. 19, 1996 | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

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