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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disco decade, but it does offer a great laugh or two. With the gas crisis still raging, bands of vigilantes (who look suspiciously like the waiting line at Studio 54) are blasting their way around the Southwest. Your mission: to join the pack and stop a rival gang of terrorists. All good fun, but why load up PCs, those most '90s of devices, with this tribute to the '70s? "The future," explains developer Zack Norman, "is boring." Maybe, but we can at least hope it doesn't include neon-orange corduroy vests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techwatch: Nov. 4, 1996 | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

Last year, Hu gained 135 yards in a 23-7 loss in which Dartmouth had the ball for over 40 minutes. The Gang Green defense recovered a fumble in the end zone to start Dartmouth's scoring, and Harvard cannot afford to be as generous this afternoon...

Author: By Bryan Lee, | Title: Football Looks For Third Win in a Row Against Dartmouth This Afternoon | 11/2/1996 | See Source »

...first act we meet four boys growing up in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen. They talk tough, engage in petty crime and swim in the river like the Dead End Kids of yore. They play basketball under the tutelage of a kindly priest, just like the gang in Angels with Dirty Faces, only with Robert De Niro playing the Pat O'Brien part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: CRIMES OF THE HEART | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

When one of their pranks misfires, the four are sent to the Wilkinson Home for Boys, and we hear the doors of a new genre, the prison picture, clang shut. A group of guards led by Sean Nokes (Kevin Bacon at his slimiest) subject them to beatings and gang rapes. These ordeals are discreetly handled by Levinson, who makes us fully aware of their horrors without becoming graphically realistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: CRIMES OF THE HEART | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

FREED. YAO WENYUAN, about 65, believed to be the sole surviving member of China's infamous "Gang of Four"; after serving all of a 20-year sentence for inciting violence during the Cultural Revolution; in Shanghai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 21, 1996 | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

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