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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Los Angeles sees nearly twice as many twisters as Oklahoma City, traditionally regarded as Tornado Central! Once, 100 million mice descended on Taft, Calif. (pop. 5,000)! In 1995 L.A. became "the nation's capital of racial (539 crimes) and sexual orientation (338 crimes) violence"! And the recent rout of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ecology Of Fear | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

In the '60s, Frank Sinatra and his cronies Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop established a form of bourgeois hedonism that once again, since Sinatra's recent death, has become an object of fascination. Unfortunately, the timing of the film is the best thing about it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rat Pack | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

This story, from the Terry McMillan novel that McMillan based on her own affair with a young Jamaican, is the sort of surefire bathos that Hollywood has long loved to dip into; Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson made it float in the 1955 All That Heaven Allows. Stella, directed by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Angela Bassett: Getting In The Groove | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

"Kiss your mall goodbye"? Yeah, right. It will happen as soon as the radio replaces the newspaper and the computer eliminates paper. GEORGE DAVIS Macon, Mo.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 10, 1998 | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

When A. JERROLD PERENCHIO, an Italian-American Republican, poured $1.5 million into fighting California's anti-bilingual-education initiative two months ago, it seemed an obvious ploy: Perenchio, as head of Univision, the major Spanish-language TV network, was seeking to curry favor with his audience. But Perenchio wasn't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

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