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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prison is it keeps things in perspective,? says co-director Rideau, who is 57 and has served 38 years in Louisiana prisons on a life sentence for murder. ?The award would be nice, but it won?t change my life one iota. I will still walk down to the chow hall afterwards for my beans and rice.? "The Farm" examines the bleak struggle of six convicts lost in a living graveyard where few ever get out. Rideau, who taught himself to read and write while on death row for 11 years, kept his story out of the film because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prisoner and the Academy | 3/13/1999 | See Source »

Within just a few years, the Kong was an established success. Sen's partners came to him with a proposition. They wanted to buy him out. He considered his options and decided that it didn't make much difference to him whether he cleaned clothing or cooked chow mein. His wife, on the other hand, was less flexible. Paul reports, "My mother told him that if [he sold his interest] and went back to the laundry, she would stay home with the kids, and he could work there by himself." So, Sen went to the bank and took...

Author: By Jonathan S. Paul, | Title: THE HONG KONG AN ORAL HISTORY | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...show featured acts by 16 student groups, ranging from a French rap by the French Club to a hula dance performed by Holoimua o Hawaii members. Afterwards, organizations offered tasty treats in the Science Center, including Arabian stuffed grape leaves and Chinese beef chow...

Author: By Sasha A. Haines-stiles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Star Will Smith Gets Jiggy on Sanders Stage | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...walked into a Los Angeles haunt, Lewinsky got a chorus of cheers. And it's common for people to stop, stare and offer unsolicited advice. But friends say the relentless paparazzi make her crazy. On Jan. 15 the New York Post ran an investigative report on Lewinsky's "chocoholic chow-down" the day before. Complete with unflattering photos of the "portly pepperpot," as the paper called her, the story detailed her order (a vanilla cupcake, a slice of chocolate-mousse cake and so on) and quoted a bakery manager: "She ate it all--every drop, every little crumb. She eats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Older and Wiser, Monica Lewinsky Returns | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...their 11-year-old daughter Danielle are models of apocalyptic pluck. It's not just the gas-powered home generator they bought in case of massive power outages. It's not the year's supply of dehydrated food in their basement or their stockpiles of canned chicken chow mein. It's the water bed. The collapse of public utilities is one of the big worries among the Y2K-anxious--meaning people concerned about the breakdown of everything because of the millennium bug that could lead to serious computer malfunction in the year 2000. (More on that later.) So the Eckharts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End Of The World As We Know It? | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

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