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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President of Tanzania addressed a Kennedy School crowd just yards away, Army hounds put their noses to the ground and U.S. Secret Service agents stood watch nervously...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Smoky Cable Box Scares Taubman Officials | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

Despite the weighty topics, Major's speech was full of dry British wit, which delighted the capacity crowd of nearly...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spirited Major Calls for Caution | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

...business famous for stale popcorn, rickety seats and sticky floors, first-class cinemas may sound like a bad joke. But with a surfeit of mammoth megaplexes filling cities and suburbs, theater owners seem willing to try anything to make their marquees stand apart from the crowd. General Cinema is teaming up with Robert Redford to launch a Sundance chain of art houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Theater Very Near You | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

Rock quit school and, after a stint as a busboy at Red Lobster, launched a comedy career. He was a clueless 17-year-old, playing small clubs around New York like the Comic Strip, trying to read the crowd, trying to milk laughs, usually failing. He wasn't making much--the Comic Strip paid $7 a set during the week, $40 on weekends--but he was trying to get his name out there, trying to build a rep. His big joke was this: "Woman comes up to me, says she'll do anything for me, anything. So I say, 'Bitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seriously Funny | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...they're at Rockefeller Plaza, peering into the NBC Today show's glass-walled studios, pestering Al Roker for a chance to say hi to Aunt Connie in Flat Rock. By afternoon, they're choking Times Square sidewalks outside MTV's fishbowl studio in hopes of getting into a crowd shot on Total Request Live. At various other times, they might hit either site for an open-air concert. Since Today's set went transparent in 1994, getting on TV has become as quintessential a New York City tourist experience as eating a pastrami sandwich the size of your suitcase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Living in Glass Houses | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

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