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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most graphic way possible, the limits of China's massive but antiquated military. Smart bombs, flexible command and control, and seamless, high-tech attacks dazzled the Chinese leadership, who ramped up a campaign to upgrade the People's Liberation Army (P.L.A.) to world-class status. The new buzz words in China's Ministry of Defense became "limited war under high-tech conditions"--and China is now buying and spying its way toward high-tech, superpower status as fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Arms Race | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...City, Utah, Robert Redford's annual conclave--and open market--of independent cinema. Aside from the high-priced bidding wars over low-budget movies, a favorite festival ritual is the emergence of a relatively unknown actress as a genuine starlet, complete with fawning fans, attitude-heavy handlers and enough buzz to short-circuit her StarTAC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: An Indie Go Girl | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...about respecting the stone, about being absolutely core. The stone, according to Volcom president Richard Woolcott, 33, "represents the buzz from a good skate session or riding a 10-ft. wave at pipe. The stone represents the euphoric state of riding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killer Profits In Velcro Valley | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...bummer month for the business," says Schickel, who, as in past years, will remain in Los Angeles for the duration. "There's a pressure that's now placed on this event, everyone racing around trying to pick up titles for next year's release. And all that frantic buzz! The worst aspects of Hollywood are collected up there, as in an appendix, inflamed and waiting to burst," he says, quick to add that "that's true of most festivals, not just Sundance." This year the buzz is swarming around Robert Altman's "Cookie's Fortune," starring Glenn Close, which opens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Sundance Over the Hill? | 1/21/1999 | See Source »

...some reason none of this works, I plan on appealing to my editors' hunger for publicity. These are the people who picked Bart Simpson as one of their 20 Entertainers of the Century and Lucky Luciano as one of the business geniuses. Compare that buzz to what they'd get for picking me as Person of the Century. How many new people would want to read TIME once they heard that the Person of the Century was working on the very issue they were reading every week? I know for sure my dad would finally break down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of the Century: The Campaign | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

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