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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jonathan Fisher and Nicole Armenta also shine as Bob and Wendy Fate, two Hawaiian-shirt clad, camera carrying tourists on the vacation of life. They grin goofily as they play "tricks" on the rest of the cast, shaping destinies with hand buzzers and squirt guns...

Author: By Phoebe Cushman, | Title: Acting, Direction Make for Lively 'Life' and 'God': | 3/19/1992 | See Source »

...that the U.S. military's Operation Magic had deciphered Japan's sophisticated Purple diplomatic code in 1940. But that triumph had its drawbacks. U.S. intelligence officials had to sift through so much trivia that they failed to react to some important messages, such as a Tokyo request to its Hawaiian consulate for the exact location of all ships in Pearl Harbor. Also, the code breaking was kept secret even from some key officials. While the British were plugged into Magic, and MacArthur too, Kimmel and Short were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day of Infamy | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...several occasions Quasha's deals have been marked by apparent conflicts of interest. Last year he tried in vain to get Harken to buy a privately held refinery, Frontier Oil, in which he owned a sizable stake. In another instance Quasha sold Harken's Hawaiian retail unit to a company controlled by both his own family and the South African Ruperts. Harken booked an $8 million gain on the deal, only to write it all off later as a loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Intrigue: The Wackiest Rig in Texas | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

...earth. The magma rises gradually, opening fissures that serve as its pipelines to the surface. What happens next depends on the composition of the magma. If it is fairly liquid, it generally produces a stately lava flow that poses more of a threat to property than to humans. Hawaiian volcanoes tend to follow this pattern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes Them Blow | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

...needed diversion. Otherwise, I'd just sit here with the news on, thinking about him every minute of every day." Her diversion takes the form of the Mardi Gras Follies '91. It is a charity fund raiser, staged annually by the Awa Lau Wahine, a Hawaiian term meaning Ladies of the Harbor. The group is an officers' wives club composed of Navy, Coast Guard and Marine women on the island of Oahu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oahu, Hawaii Dancing on The Home Front | 2/18/1991 | See Source »

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