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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rock, this week's entry in the summer movie testostero-thon, looks like an instant sequel to Mission Impossible. Look again. Directed by Michael Bay (Bad Boys) and written by David Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook and Mark Rosner, the movie is less a rip-off than a corrective. "This is the team-spirit action movie Mission Impossible should have been," says TIME's Richard Corliss. A tortured general (Ed Harris) and some renegade Marines seize Alacatraz, take 81 tourists hostage and threaten to launch gas rockets across the bay to vaporize San Francisco. An FBI biochemist (Nicolas Cage) is dispatched...
Nintendo, meanwhile, pumped new life into the maturing 16-bit market by releasing Donkey Kong Country, a game originally designed for the new 64-bit system, in a version that played on the 16-bit Super NES. The game's eye-popping graphics were an instant sensation; DKC not only became the best-selling game of 1994 but also ratcheted up pressure on the teams designing games for the new machine. "When we released Donkey Kong Country, we raised the bar on ourselves," says Lincoln. "The launch games on Nintendo 64 had to be that much better...
JANET COOKE became an instant ethics lesson for a generation of journalists after her 1980 Pulitzer-prizewinning story on "Jimmy," an eight-year-old heroin addict, was found to have been fabricated. Now she has resurfaced in the pages of GQ magazine, telling her story to onetime colleague and lover Mike Sager. Cooke says that as a child she learned to lie as a way of avoiding her strict father's temper. Unfortunately, liars who indulge their vice publicly and get caught don't have many career options. "I'm in a situation where cereal has become a viable dinner...
...Edward ... heard a great whooshing sound and in the same instant saw the elevator shaft fill with a sudden rocketlike uprush of flame and gas, a blazing cylinder made visible as the elevator door exploded outward, showering sparks and embers on all in the room, setting fires on the green felt of the pool tables, and hurling into the air blazing splinters and sticks, one of which pierced the breast of Katrina and instantly set her gown aflame...
...fear of this coming to pass may provide the best explanation for last week's Sotheby's shenanigans. Most Americans have never been keen on history--looking forward gets in the way of looking back--and the national memory bank seems to be shrinking further under the onslaught of instant electronic gratifications. But the post-World War II baby boomers--the ones who were in their mid-teens when Jack and Jackie entered the White House in 1961--formed a unique generation in the national progression. They were the first ones born in the era of commercial TV, the first...