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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After a long while of trying, he gave up, and the therapists let him. "What they're trying to do," he says, "is get you to take responsibility for your own progress." Then he tried again, took 10 breaths on his own and moved the dial. "I finally said, 'Damn, I'm going to breathe. I've got to make some progress here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW HOPES, NEW DREAMS | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

...feel the same thing about working in the political arena. Nobody has to come up with more money or basically give a damn about people who are in dire straits or suffering. And yet I believe in the goodness of people to the extent that if you can present your case properly, they will respond, that people are at heart compassionate and will respond. What you have to do, I think, is remove the fear in them. The fear that they might be making a mistake. They don't want to make mistakes. They don't want to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW HOPES, NEW DREAMS | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

There is the early summer and the light of winter coming, and baseball embraces both. The musical Damn Yankees is the story of an old man named Joe who barters his soul to the devil to be made young again and help the Washington Senators win the pennant. As usually happens in such bargains, he changes his mind in the end, and the devil turns Joe old again just at the moment he is running after a high drive sailing for the stands. He was a young man when he started out after the ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BASEBALL: THE LIGHT OF WINTER COMING | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

...WALSTON, SEVENTYISH, BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA; Actor For a generation of Americans, Martians weren't little green men--they looked like Walston, who starred with the late Bill Bixby in the 1963-66 TV series My Favorite Martian. A Broadway veteran (he won a Tony for playing the Devil in Damn Yankees), he took the extraterrestrial role of Bixby's Uncle Martin expecting the show to be a serious look at parallel worlds, a proto-Star Trek, and was upset by its evolution into what he calls "a silly sitcom." Since then he has appeared in plays, films and other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 19, 1996 | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

There are no frozen daiquiris. There are only pretty sunsets, friendly people and damn good cheeseburgers...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Sailing Away to Buffetville | 8/16/1996 | See Source »

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