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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their summer attire? Of course, shorts-wearers must endure hardships from bitter air biting at their legs to flabbergasted double takes. These individuals must possess extraordinary self-confidence to publicly expose themselves daily. In short, to wear shorts in the winter is to be a true iconoclast, a super hero who rejects all societal notions of behavior, a human being of epic proportions...

Author: By Vicky C. Hallett, | Title: Naked Knees | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

Rarely is human society graced by a person whose heroic courage and raw emotional power move so many people that he threatens to crumble the walls of injustice. Three years ago, the free world was shocked when the Nigerian military dictatorship executed one such hero, the Ogoni Nigerian Ken Saro-Wiwa. The Ogoni people of Nigeria live in an oil-rich and once-fertile land, but they are a national minority susceptible to governmental abuse...

Author: By Shai M. Sachs, | Title: Now's the Time to Divest From Shell | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

Perhaps individuals like Wilentz simply refuse to see Jefferson as capable of sexual misconduct. Perhaps because it is too difficult to see "the greatest hero of the eighteenth century" as a hypocrite. But by validating the union of Jefferson and Hemings as one of love, we dismiss the tragic legacy of slavery and the complex and perverted relationship between slave and master...

Author: By Kamil E. Redmond, | Title: Love or Domination? | 11/18/1998 | See Source »

DIED. BOB KANE, 83, creator of the comic-book icon Batman; in Los Angeles. Kane brought the character to life in 1939, inspired by the masked hero Zorro, a silent movie called The Bat and a picture of Leonardo da Vinci's batlike flying machine. The strength and creativity Kane bestowed on his superhero allowed Batman to leap from comics to a 1960s TV series to the movies (see Eulogy, below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 16, 1998 | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...thirds of the moviehilarious succumbs to moments so predictable andcliched that they make Air Bud looksuspenseful. In fact, the final third of TheWaterboy resembles Air Bud in onestriking similarity: the football team isdiscouraged and defeated in the first half withoutits star player, but rejoices when the slobbering,poodle-brained hero prances onto the field. Thebest part of the final scenes is the presence ofRob Schneider as a dirty, smelly and perverteddrunk that squeezes riotous laughter out of therepeated phrase...

Author: By Christopher R. Blazejewski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: WET & WILD with ADAM SANDLER | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

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