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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what was Boston's highest grossing sports event ever, challenger Stone Cold Steve Austin stole the WWF belt from last year's champ, Shawn Michaels...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Austin Wins WWF Belt Before Crowd At Fleet Center | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

Sally herself, played by Natasha Richardson, is older, more wasted, less the perky-quirky charmer played by Liza Minnelli in the 1972 movie. Richardson (The Handmaid's Tale onscreen; Anna Christie onstage; Vanessa Redgrave's daughter in real life) doesn't belt out the Kander and Ebb numbers a la Liza; she acts them. The climactic title song, most startlingly, is no longer a triumphant anthem. Richardson clutches the microphone and grits through the lyrics ("Start by admitting/ From cradle to tomb/ Isn't that long a stay"), shouting her defiance even as she struggles to keep from flying apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Springtime For Sally | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...British motoring organization insisted Monday that it had no plans to use Princess Diana in a seat belt campaign that critics charged was tasteless and insensitive. Politicians, police and safety organizations had condemned a reported plan by the Royal Automobile Club for a campaign claiming the princess could have survived the Aug. 31 Paris car crash if she had been wearing a rear seat belt. On the other hand, margarine tubs bearing Diana's official logo went on sale Monday -- provoking complaints about commercialism, even though the money will go to charity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charles and His Boys on Holiday | 3/24/1998 | See Source »

That raspy drawl, the salt-and-pepper hair, a doughnut-stuffed belly hanging over his belt. Others in Primary Colors tried to steer clear of real-life inspiration; John Travolta became a Bill Clinton clone. It took weeks to master the familiar vocal cadence and body language, but the feel-your-pain sincerity came easier. "The scary thing about this part is, take away the Southern accent and gray hair, and I don't respond that differently to people," he says, dunking a taquito into a lump of guacamole as he unwinds in his trailer after work. "I'm good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The People's Choice | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

Harry Reasoner recently took TIME to task on ABC-TV for certain instances of its obsessional and below-the-belt reporting on Watergate, which he said had betrayed the canons of both objective and ethical journalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sounding Off, Talking Back | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

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