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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There's no way to tell people this truth without having them be poff. The fact is that people are asleep. They need a short, sharp shock. They need that to make them stand up and listen. What happened at the Bob Dylan show is proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Need a Short, Sharp Shock: SINEAD O'CONNOR | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...symbolized had gone. What occurred to me in those seconds was that if this audience felt like this, then they hadn't actually listened to what Bob Dylan said, they didn't actually get it. These are the people who supposedly believed in Bob Dylan, but they've fallen asleep. And this is proved by the fact that himself, their figurehead, fell asleep. Bob Dylan went onstage after that had happened to another artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Need a Short, Sharp Shock: SINEAD O'CONNOR | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...deep, ridged on both sides. There he died. Writing in last week's issue of Science, a team of experts suggested that the Iceman "was in a state of exhaustion perhaps as a consequence of adverse weather conditions. He therefore may have lain down . . . fallen asleep and frozen to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stone Age Iceman | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

...that limo!" His mother Helen remembers Billy grasping his toothbrush like a mike, "thanking all the little people who made this possible." In the morning, she would put notes under the cereal bowl -- "Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird" -- for the Oscars awarded after he fell asleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Having Struggled From Warm-Up Act to Headliner: BILLY CRYSTAL | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

...your checkbook obsolete and produce a baby boomlet of Millies and Millards. As you down a glass of warm buttermilk before bed, you can note ! with satisfaction that the year is off to a bad start: ABC says Two Thousand, CNN says Twenty Hundred. Then you can fall asleep counting millennial sheep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tonight We're Gonna Party Like It's 1999 | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

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