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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spouting purple prose by wielding the comeback, the put-down, the come-on, all in one sprightly barrage. Cool Claudette. "I can say immodestly that I'm a very good comedienne," Colbert told TIME in 1981. "But I was always fighting that image too. I just never had the luck to play bitches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Aug. 12, 1996 | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

...perfectly struck golf ball, which requires oneness with the universe. That a foolhardy opportunity to achieve that state arises on the last hole of the U.S. Open, when Roy has a chance to beat his slick and arrogant, lifelong rival (Don Johnson), is the kind of bad, dumb luck he's used to; this guy's been playing out of the existential rough all his life. "As he always does in comedy, Costner grants an irresistible gleam of gallantry to male mulishness," says TIME's Richard Schickel As the psychologist who can't help loving this foolish fellow, Rene Russo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Entertainment Guide: | 8/9/1996 | See Source »

...clear to those who missed his drift last fall, the presumptive "dream candidate" and declared Republican has now ruled out campaigning for any GOP presidential candidate in 1996. Dole has publicly talked of looking forward to taking Powell along on the stump, but he is apparently out of luck. "I am practicing my own politics privately," Powell told AP Network News on Monday. The general added that he did not feel comfortable telling people how to vote. He did not rule out participating in the GOP convention later this summer, but said he did not want to play a major...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exit, Stage Right | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

...deco interior make this the most chichi theater in town. After getting off at the Kendall-MIT stop, you have to cut through the Marriot, negotiate a deathly intersection, cross train tracks, and trudge through the dubious and probably health-threatening wastelands and parking lots of Genzyme. Good Luck. Coolidge Corner This non-profit independent theater sports a huge, old fashioned screen and shows benefit screenings of independent films, local filmmakers, and the Sick and Twisted Animation festival. It's in Brookline, which means you'd have to break the unwritten rule against most Harvard students even attempting to take...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Theaters I Have Known | 7/2/1996 | See Source »

...record. Her time in the 800-free victory that followed was a mere Olympic record of 8:20.20--3 sec. short of the world record that she had set some months earlier. It was worth little more than a nod. Janet had taken care of business, but gee, better luck next time. And indeed in 1989, in Tokyo, she did lower her 800-free world record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JANET EVANS: ONE LAST SPLASH | 6/28/1996 | See Source »

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