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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...increased the racial tensions in New York. But the worst was yet to come. Two days later, on Labor Day, a group of volunteer firefighters entered a float in the annual parade through the quiet, isolated Queens neighborhood of Broad Channel. The group had won the award for funniest float nine years in a row, with themes that often mocked minorities including Jews and gays, with titles like "Hasidic Park" (a parody of Jurassic Park) and "Gooks of Hazzard...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Two Boroughs, Two Races, One Problem | 9/16/1998 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Appears on New Game Show | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...yanked back to Studio 54, the trash-glam Manhattan disco where, for a few years, simply everyone who did anyone was desperate to be seen. They had a blast at this all-night carnival of drugs, booze, sex, and a lot of pretty people who tawked funny. And the funniest was 54's co-owner and host Steve Rubell, the Elsa Maxwell of sleaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: That '70s Club | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

Among the first network debuts of the fall season, this series began to create controversy months ago because a scene in the pilot suggests that the teenage characters have been smoking pot. In fact, their stoned conversation is the funniest thing in the whole episode. Produced by the teams that created Roseanne, The Cosby Show and 3rd Rock from the Sun, That 70's Show is otherwise a typical teen comedy, only with '70s artifacts pasted into it. Satirizing smiley faces and leisure suits is hardly fresh, although there's a sweetness and likability to the cast, led by Eric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That 70's Show | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

...ever (Steve McQueen) and you've got a scorcher. Rear Window (1954). Well, actually, the whole Hitchcock canon, actually, but my pick is Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly. Down By Law (1986). Jim Jarmusch's extended character study (incorporating a few digs at Hollywood convention) is probably the funniest American movie ever made. Rebel Without a Cause (1955). The cinematic codification of the obsession with youth that dominated postwar American pop culture. Platoon (1986). Oliver Stone takes us to the heart of the battle for the soul of the American male...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Gathering of Potatoes | 6/19/1998 | See Source »

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