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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Theodore Roosevelt mounted a grand, year-long safari to East Africa, where, nearsighted as Mr. Magoo, he fired off an astonishing amount of ammunition at every species in God's creation, to be stuffed for the American Museum of Natural History. Lyndon Johnson returned to his Texas ranch to drink and smoke and grow his hair long like a hippie and wait to die. Richard Nixon did brooding penance beside the Pacific, then went back East to reinvent himself as elder statesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lives Of The Saint | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...flowing, inter-generational mural of time, Lone Star. With the awkwardly titled Men With Guns (it amazingly both sounds like, and is, a bad translation), however, Sayles has turned a fundamentally disturbing subject matter fit for a sober documentary into the slow-motion romp of a Mr. Magoo social historian. Main character Dr. Humberto Fuentes (Federico Luppi) undergoes an overblown process of discovery in which we are invited to partake: nasty secret things happening and happen after civil strife. Again, no one can fault Sayles for noble motives, and obviously the story itself merits only the most serious consideration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

...Magoo Subs of 6 Concord Ln. reported that during the night unknown persons apparently drove a large vehicle, possibly a truck, into the side of the building, seriously damaging the side door and dumpster...

Author: By Neeraj K. Gupta, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Log of Cambridge Police Activity | 2/25/1998 | See Source »

...Magoo is a vegetable canning magnate. Did you spend time at a vegetable cannery for the part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 8, 1997 | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

LESLIE NIELSEN stars as Mr. Magoo in the upcoming Mr. Magoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 8, 1997 | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

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