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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best live-action sequels, as good as The Godfather II." This doesn't mean BUZZ LIGHTYEAR will swim with the rubber duckies, but WOODY does get abducted by an unsavory toy collector. When the movie hits theaters in November, new cast members JESSE THE COWGIRL, the PROSPECTOR and the evil ZURG will join the originals, who despite advances in technology, look much the same. "We stayed true to what people remembered," says director John Lasseter, "but the humans look better." Even animated actors can use a nip and tuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 5, 1999 | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

With that benefit of the doubt, couldn't Bush take the risk of searching for a policy that can accommodate conflicting moral claims, so that we can stop thinking each other evil? During the perennial debate over partial-birth abortion, something important changed, but the extremists running the show were so dug in that they let the moment pass. For the first time in decades, pro-choicers (and the much desired soccer moms) were confronted with the statistics showing that late-term abortions weren't quite so rare or performed solely in grave circumstances and that the "health of mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble with Pleasing Everyone | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...United States Congress has finally given up on its Dr. Evil-like plan to blackmail the United Nations into slashing its bureaucracy. Instead, they?re coughing up one billion dollars in back dues, and taking the money out of the back end. The Senate voted 98-1 on Tuesday to release the back dues and cut the U.S. contribution to the organization?s budget to 20 percent from 25 percent. TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell says the change of heart ?- adopted by Democrats after Clinton went along ?- has a lot to do with Slobodan Milosevic. "Kosovo showed the importance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why U.S. Decided to Pay Its Late U.N. Dues | 6/22/1999 | See Source »

What is there not to like about an evil genius with a taste for human sweetbreads and absolutely no morning-after guilt, or indigestion, about slaking his hunger? Particularly, it must be added, when such a monster is securely incarcerated in the dank basement of a Baltimore, Md., mental institution for the rest of his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dessert, Anyone? | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

Having created a character of unadulterated evil, Harris has now proceeded to adulterate him, giving Lecter a traumatic childhood experience to explain the wicked path he later trod. What is more, Lecter is by no means the worst member of the roiling cast of Hannibal; that honor goes to Mason Verger, one of Lecter's two surviving victims, hideously deformed (thanks to Hannibal), heir to his family's meatpacking fortune, a onetime torturer for Uganda's former dictator Idi Amin, and a child molester to boot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dessert, Anyone? | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

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