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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death in 1963 prompted a slow fugue of commemorative albums (including a bizarre set of postmortem duets with the also deceased Jim Reeves) and the stately 1985 biopic Sweet Dreams, with Jessica Lange as Patsy. Now the singer has become a legend that won't die. There's Patsy Cline: The Birth of a Star (Razor & Tie records), an audio collection of her TV appearances with Godfrey. A stage show, Always...Patsy Cline, played for two years in Nashville, Tennessee. The star of Always, Mandy Barnett, has just released her own album of Cline-inflected tunes. And for weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: INCLINED TO BE JUST LIKE PATSY | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

Charles Ferrara, a Harvard Square hair-cutting legend who coiffed the manes of professors and politicians for nearly half a century at LaFlamme barber shop, died Tuesday in Massachusetts General Hospital...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Legendary Barber Dead at 81 | 8/9/1996 | See Source »

...glorious splendor that is the Wang Center, the latest production of "The Phantom of the Opera" to hit Boston lives up to--and beyond--the legend it has created for itself. From the magnificently ornate costumes to the familiar and crystal-clear melodies rising from the orchestra pit, the now world-famous production is still a breathtaking waltz into the heart of the most romantic lunatic that ever lived...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, | Title: 'Phantom of the Opera' Is Still Phantastic After All This Time | 7/30/1996 | See Source »

Within the tight circles of terrorism experts, Thurman is a legend. In 1990 he solved what everyone thought was an almost perfect crime, figuring out who destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland on Dec. 21, 1988. Thurman matched a fragment of a circuit board from the bomb's timer to an identical circuit board, which was part of a timer the CIA had recovered from an intact, unexploded bomb seized in Togo in 1986. Thurman's amazing command of detail led to a Zurich electronics firm that admitted selling 20 such timers to the Libyan regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERROR ON FLIGHT 800: TERROR ON FLIGHT 800 | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

Wolf cited former State House Speaker and Cambridge political legend Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, who once said that "all politics is local...

Author: By Elisheva A. Lambert, | Title: Alice Wolf Discusses Campaigning Views | 7/26/1996 | See Source »

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