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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long as he was the undefeated champ, implacably separating large fellows from their wits, Tyson was exempt from sweeping moral judgment. A killing machine knows no scruples. His brutality was his aura. He was as bad as we wanted him to be. But once he was unthroned by Buster Douglas in a humiliating upset early last year, Tyson was not only revealed as mortal but also held to mortals' rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mike Tyson: Tragedy of An Ex-Champ | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

...with nature. The 38 attractions will include a building that appears to levitate above a pond, a chariot ride inside the "molecular structure" of a rose and a journey over a fabricated rainbow. Naturally, there are unbelievers. Says Orlando Sentinel columnist Robert Morris: "Somehow I just can't picture Buster and Betty Lunchbucket of Racine, Wis., along with all the little Lunchbuckets, lining up to get in touch with their inner selves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orlando, Florida: Fantasy's Reality | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

From Champ to Chump Buster Douglas sucker-punched the boxing world by knocking out heavyweight champion Mike Tyson in Tokyo last February. But success went to his stomach -- he became more interested in the banquet table than the boxing ring. Eight months later in Las Vegas, in his only title defense, the 246-lb. Douglas lasted less than three rounds against a leaner and hungrier Evander Holyfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers of 1990 | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

...narrower margin. In part they fell victim to a backlash against the sheer number of ballot propositions -- 28 in all -- that Californians had to contend with in the voting booth. "They voted no on everything," laments Lynn Sadler, campaign director for Forests Forever. Big Green was a ballot buster all by itself, a 16,000-word laundry list of aims, including a ban on cancer-causing pesticides, a phase-out of chemicals that deplete the ozone layer and creation of an oil-spill cleanup fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Propositions Green Ballots vs. Greenbacks | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

...Governor of North Dakota came under fire from disapproving legislators who discovered a radar detector -- legal in North Dakota -- in his truck. Sinner explained that the fuzz buster was a gift from his children. Said he: "It's sort of a sacred, emotional thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Excuse of the Week | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

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