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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Growing up onscreen, Dorothy was pretty as a Keane picture, vivacious as Betty Boop, and slim--slim as a black actress's chance of movie stardom in the whites-only golden age. Nina Mae McKinney (in Hallelujah) and Fredi Washington (in Imitation of Life) had radiated passion and depth, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LADY SCREENS THE BLUES | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

When On the Town opened in 1944, New York, New York really was a helluva town. And Broadway was one fabulous art form. Oklahoma!, cornpone revolutionizer of the musical, was playing nearby, and Carousel was about to open. Kurt Weill, Sigmund Romberg, Cole Porter and Harold Arlen all had new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: OLD SHOWS, NEW SPIRIT | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

SENTENCED. MALCOLM SHABAZZ, 12, grandson of Malcolm X; to 18 months at a juvenile detention center; in Lenox, Mass.; for setting a fire that killed his grandmother, Betty Shabazz.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Aug. 18, 1997 | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

After beating back the youth at Winged Foot Thursday with birdies on the last three holes and a 4-under-par 66, perennial comeback-story Jon Daly faces a tough time staying on top. After the round, the Sisyphean Betty Ford grad said winning it all would be "a shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tomorrow's News Now | 8/14/1997 | See Source »

PLEADED GUILTY. MALCOLM SHABAZZ, 12, Malcolm X's troubled namesake, who set the fire that killed his grandmother Betty; to the juvenile equivalent of second-degree manslaughter and second-degree arson; in Yonkers, N.Y. He faces up to 18 months in detention. His sentence, however, will be re-evaluated yearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 21, 1997 | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

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