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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Behind all of Phil Hartman's characters lurked the same guy: uptight, inflated, slightly annoyed, but just self-aware enough to be in on the joke. In his personal life too, the longtime cast member of Saturday Night Live and NewsRadio seemed to be one of the few who appreciated the humor of celebrity, keeping his life in balance and low-key: a home in the unglamorous San Fernando Valley, a position as honorary sheriff in his town and a steady income from his TV show, small movie roles and voice-overs. So what happened early last Thursday morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Happy Fella | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...commonplace of pop-music commentary to point out that at the time of the Beatles' first appearance on the Sullivan show, the U.S. was a country uniquely in need of some cheering up. The assassination of a young and charismatic President little more than two months earlier had cast a pall on the national mood; and of course there were rumors of war. Certainly the moment was propitious for the four lads from Liverpool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rock Musicians THE BEATLES | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...film of Nijinsky dancing, no one questions his place of honor in the history of 20th century ballet. Even if her beleaguered company should someday close its doors and her dances cease to be performed, Graham will doubtless be remembered in much the same way, for the shadow she cast was fully as long. Did she invent modern dance? No, but she came to embody it, arrogantly and spectacularly--and, it appears, permanently. "When the legend becomes fact," said the newspaper editor in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, "print the legend." The legend of Martha Graham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dancer MARTHA GRAHAM | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...Radcliffe is looking to cast a wider net of partnership as well...

Author: By Andrew K. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: THE END OF AN ERA | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

Such an insight transcends Marx's narrow material dialecticism and speaks to the tangibility of building (and razing) of historical projects. That is, we quite literally walk on top of the past as we cast off our presents onto the giant heap. The Indian-Pakistani rivalry, which harkens back to the 1947 partition creating the two nations and to the historic Hindu-Muslim animosity, is now being grafted onto the setting of a nuclear planet. The weapons of war have changed even as the cultural animosity remains the same...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: On the Brink | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

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