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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Relive groovy hairstyles and groovier plotlines at this revival of America's favorite TV bratfest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not at Harvard | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

...referred to President Dwight Eisenhower as "Pops," got Jimmy Carter to sing Salt Peanuts at the White House and copped one of those fancy medals from the Kennedy Center. He even ran for the highest office a couple of times himself (sample campaign lyric: "Your politics oughta be a groovier thing/ So get a good President who's willing to swing"), announcing that he would make Malcolm X Attorney General. None of this prankishness or social acceptance blunted the edge of his music: he initiated, almost singlehandedly, what's now called Afro-Cuban jazz, and as late as last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Who Transformed Their Worlds : Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993) | 1/18/1993 | See Source »

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