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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most magically, there was a glorious children's theater program at the Hudson Guild, funded by Helena Rubenstein. By age eight, the not-yet Whoopi was hooked. "I could be a princess, a teapot ((she laughs at the memory)), a rabbit, anything. And in a way, it's been children's theater ever since. I've only recently begun believing that I've grown up, and acting is what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Joy of Being Whoopi Goldberg | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

...letter to his wife in which he conjured a splendid vision: "History will one day have its say, but it will not be the history that is taught in Brussels, Paris, Washington or in the United Nations . . . Africa will write her own history, and . . . it will be a glorious and dignified history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: the Scramble for Survival | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

...contain only about 18 million pixels (picture elements), which is roughly equivalent to the visual information represented by the 20 million silver molecules in a standard 35-mm negative. But that is about one-fifth the resolution offered by high-quality Kodachrome slides, and it cannot compare with the glorious large-format pictures that Ansel Adams labored to create...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can You Picture This? | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

...didn't exactly burst into tears of joy when I noticed that my Pushinskaya Square window faces the McDonald's sign, a yellow "M", and the Coke sign. Sings of my glorious American culture. I wasn't proud...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, | Title: A Burger at Mickey D's Beats Out The Local Stolovaya Fare Any Day | 8/18/1992 | See Source »

Only one crucial similarity remains. The food tastes the same. The Coke tastes like Coke, a milkshake tastes like a milkshake. And the hamburger topped with ketchup, mustard and pickle, tastes like, well, a hamburger. So know I know why I, too, worship the glaring yellow "M," the glorious products of a capitalist society. It's because of the food...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, | Title: A Burger at Mickey D's Beats Out The Local Stolovaya Fare Any Day | 8/18/1992 | See Source »

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