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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people don't ask for much--enough food, adequate shelter and a mildly entertaining Oscar-night show that gets us to bed before sunrise. Hollywood, in all its benevolence, is hard at work on granting us the latter. The producers of next year's Academy Awards show, husband-and-wife team Lili and Richard Zanuck, made a public plea this month to intermittent emcee BILLY CRYSTAL, who last year ceded the hosting duties to Whoopi Goldberg. "It's the one thing people agree on--they all want Billy," said Lili (kindly refraining from adding, "just not in any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 27, 1999 | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Although it may not be possible on New Year's Eve, it's usually a good idea to go to bed at a decent hour. Even teetotalers tend to feel a bit hung over if they stay up all night. Don't be surprised, however, if you wake up a couple of hours after you fall asleep. Your brain counteracts alcohol's sedative effects by becoming more excited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Party | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...when they were shot to death in the library, has had the hardest time. Though he has on occasion spoken to groups with Darrell, he refuses to return to Columbine High and is being schooled by a county home-tutoring program. "Some days he can't get out of bed," says his mother Beth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Columbine Tapes: An Act Of God? | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...your map showing how people around the world will spend New Year's Eve [LIVING, Nov. 29], you suggested that Yanomami tribe members in Roraima, Brazil, will probably ignore the millennium and go to bed early. But at midnight the men will in all likelihood be wide awake, huddling over their campfires and talking about life, just as they do every night. A tribal leader may explain what will be going on in other parts of the world on this night. The men will stand in awe trying to fathom this--for all of three minutes, after which they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 20, 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...Larch of the novel. Although he has a gruff exterior, Larch loves all of his orphans, especially young Homer. It breaks his heart when Homer leaves, but he never gives up--just like, you might say, a real father. His signature line, spoken to the orphans before bed, "Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England," belies an overly optimistic hope for the future all of his young ones, a love and faith that he passed on to Homer...

Author: By Andrew P. Nikonchuk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tobey: Irving Writes Own Rules | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

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