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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Daughter of the high school physics teacher and a self-identified faculty brat, ("In other words, no dates," she says) Mayer turned an invitation by one of her four older siblings to try field hockey into a five-year stint playing goalie for the high school team...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Mayer Leaves Her Field Of Dreams | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

...anyone who saw the recent MTV Video Music Awards, the surreal highlight of the evening was not Da Brat's prancing around in gladiator regalia, Marilyn Manson's satanic peep show or the Spice Girls' attempt at harmonization. It was when Busta Rhymes commandeered the stage accompanied by a very awkward looking Martha Stewart. Flashing his trademark Cheshire cat grin to the audience and stepping up to the mic with free-style gems, Rhymes made a contrived awards show moment into something genuinely memorable and exciting. He proved himself once again to be a stand-out entertainer, even among other...

Author: By Brandon K. Walston, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: [living large] ON A BORING BACKGROUND | 10/3/1997 | See Source »

...upshot is that in a decade and a half, the woman Elvis met and fell in love with when she was a pretty 14-year-old Army brat (and he the world's most famous private) has taken a company with a market value of $3 million and virtually no income and built an enterprise with yearly revenues of an estimated $75 million and a likely value in excess of $250 million, with a public offering of stock expected soon for its new restaurant properties. The accomplishment is all the more remarkable given that EPE does not have title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOVE ME LEGAL TENDER | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

Bill Cosby not only talked the talk of fatherhood, he walked the walk. Ennis Cosby was not a brat. He was a teacher. Now it's his father who'll have to be one. Bill Cosby has a new role as a model of loss, a paragon of violent bereavement. In Hollywood, privileged, unreal, incredible Hollywood, where imagination transforms reality, reality is taking the upper hand. It's as though the gods of drama have ordained that our entertainers must now act out America's most awful true-life conflicts, no longer just its escapist fantasies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SITUATION TRAGEDY | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

...Force brat, Nicholson moved constantly as a kid. Friends remember him as conventional, ambitious and, in a time of student rebellion, deeply patriotic. At Oregon State University, he earned a degree in geography and learned how to interpret satellite reconnaissance data. At graduation, he married and went straight into the army. With his wife Laura, he resumed the life of perpetual motion he had always known, moving frequently among military bases while he served as a cryptologist and rose to the rank of captain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEACHER OR TRAITOR | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

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