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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Much the same thing happens with D-FENS, whose portrayal by Douglas is more finely tuned than Ebbe Roe Smith's script. When we meet him he is a sort of Everygeek -- flattop haircut, half horn-rims, a pocket protector fully armed with ball-points. You expect his anger to be ineffectual, especially since he starts out armed only with paranoid righteousness. But, as we all know, weaponry is easily acquired in the jungle of our cities, and by the time D- FENS nears home, he has acquired a bazooka. More important, he is no longer the nightmare's victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Losing It All in L.A. | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

...inventor who has patented a safer, blunt-end type of ear-cleaning cotton swab says he got the idea from Hammer's flattop. Next: a feather duster that looks like Don King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forward Spin: Sep. 7, 1992 | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

...first U.S. attack on a major Japanese warship, though, bombers from the Lexington and the Yorktown trapped and sank the 12,000-ton light carrier Shoho; nearly 700 of her 900 crewmen went down with her. Lieut. Commander Robert Dixon triumphantly radioed, "Dixon to carrier, scratch one flattop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down but Not Out | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...Andy Hardy for the '90s: a scheming innocent, ever wavering between girlfriends, ever scampering away from trouble and smack into worse. With his impish, Darryl Strawberry-size grin and an 8-in.-high flattop haircut that looks like a pillbox hat out of Zsa Zsa's closet, Kid (Christopher Reid) swipes audience sympathy from the get-go. Now he sits in the principal's office after a cafeteria fight with evil dude Stab (Paul Anthony). Seems Stab has branded Kid's dead mother a whore. The white principal is befuddled. "Why in God's name," she asks the perp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Doing The Bright Thing | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

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