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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...undertone was a clear desire to meet Capra halfway, to be taken in by Senator Smith's crazy idealism. Just like an audience seeing the movie in 1939, this one booed the corrupt party boss, sighed when Jean Arthur confessed her love and cheered when they hypocritical Claude Rains broke down and admitted how right Jimmy had been all along. It wasn't a total transformation; everyone knew that, when the lights went out, they would be walking back to an empty subway in the dark, and the defensive glower would have to return...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New York's Warm, Fuzzy Side | 7/4/1996 | See Source »

...June 16 vote has been some unusually sustained drinking among the village officials and their friends. They are drinking their way through the money they got for organizing the election. Because of a mass hangover, the radio in the village office had been turned off the morning that news broke of the power struggle between General Lebed and Yeltsin's security chiefs. No one heard the reports. Villagers who did learn of the Kremlin intrigue seemed to find it less gripping than the Brazilian soap opera they had watched the night before. Igor Dudinsky shrugged off the radio reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEANWHILE, IN THE DEEP, DARK RUSSIAN HEARTLAND... | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

...only responsible for added traffic problems and longer commute times, but the construction has even cut away at the Boston economy through unforeseen side-effects, such as a drop in the leasing of downtown office space. And just last week, a Big Dig construction crew accidentally broke a water main, interrupting water flow to many downtown businesses and government buildings...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang, | Title: I Dig the Big Dig | 6/28/1996 | See Source »

...world track-and-field championships last August in Gothenburg, Sweden, Johnson did something they said couldn't be done. After running in three 400 preliminaries, he won--and nearly broke the world record in--the 400 on a Wednesday. Then he ran three 200 prelims before winning--and nearly breaking the world record in--the 200 on Friday. He topped it all off by anchoring the victorious U.S. 4 x 400-m relay team on Sunday. Asked whether the Olympic schedule would be changed to accommodate Johnson's double dare, Primo Nebiolo, the president of the International Amateur Athletics Federation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHAEL JOHNSON: THE DOUBLE DARE | 6/28/1996 | See Source »

Manning suggested that Symington ran for office because he was going broke. A novel promissory note signed in 1992 between Symington and Phoenix lender Jerome Hirsch drastically scaled down the money owed if Symington were to be President when the loan came due. The indictment's count of attempted extortion charges that in trying to soften repayment terms on the $10 million union loan, Symington as Governor threatened to cancel a lucrative Arizona State University lease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARIZONA, THE SCANDAL STATE | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

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