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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NIQUE, 30 Circle of Hell: II Seems like: A heavy Joan Rivers Next Seinfeld? If Seinfeld can exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Funny: The Next Generation | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...show that Mulan is as valuable as any boy. Or as the film goes on to demonstrate, that she can do something her father cannot: bury a horde of enemy Huns under tons of snow. You go, girl! It's the perfect way for Disney to do Joan of Arc without having the heroine burned at the stake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feminism: Girl Power | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

...bulimia are reported every year, and between 5% and 10% of females 14 and older suffer from such disorders, according to the nonprofit group Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention. "I don't think in local communities and in schools we're seeing any real flowering of girl power," says Joan Brumberg, author of The Body Project, which draws on diary entries from Victorian times to the present to argue that girls have increasingly defined themselves in terms of their looks. Although she believes that girls need their own cultural icons, Brumberg is worried that celebrities inevitably reinforce the notion that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feminism: Girl Power | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

...Percentage who said the name of Noah's wife was Joan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jun. 8, 1998 | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...Television Workshop hired him. In fact, Henson hesitated to join the show, since he did not want to become stuck as a children's entertainer. Nonetheless, few would disagree that it was primarily Bert and Ernie, Big Bird, Grover and the rest who made Sesame Street so captivating. Joan Ganz Cooney, who created the show, once remarked that the group involved with it had a collective genius but that Henson was the only individual genius. "He was our era's Charlie Chaplin, Mae West, W.C. Fields and Marx Brothers," Cooney said, "and indeed he drew from all of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JIM HENSON: The TV Creator | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

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