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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Knicks fans ready to celebrate if the New Yorkers managed to prevail. When Cambridge native Patrick Ewing missed those two open-court lay-ups and drew and offensive interference, I clapped. Loudly. When Kenny Smith nailed that clutch three-pointer with about two minutes left, I did a moonwalk. And when Hakeem Olajuwon got a piece of John Starks' final shot of the game, sealing the Rocket victory, I danced and cheered and nearly had my face punched...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Confessions of a Killjoy New Yorker | 6/29/1994 | See Source »

...love being around them," he wrote in his 1988 autobiography, Moonwalk. "There always seem to be a bunch of kids over at the house, and they're always welcome. They energize me -- just being around them." When he welcomed handicapped kids to the ranch, he was no condescending Lord Bountiful looking for a tax write-off; he was their peer, and they were friends he could play with, sing to -- in the purest sense of the word, love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Jackson: Who's Bad? | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

Kreshtool begins his lessons with exercises designed to loosen people up. The students flail about wildly, walk like gorillas, and walk backwards in a Michael Jackson moonwalk manner...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Those Dancin' Shoes | 3/3/1993 | See Source »

...claimed he has had only minimal plastic surgery, referring viewers to his 1988 biography Moonwalk, in which he admitted to having had his nose removed -- sorry, remodeled -- and a chin cleft made. And he denied he bleached his skin to its current Kabuki whiteness as a renunciation of his ethnic roots: "I am proud to be a black American." He said (and his dermatologist has confirmed) he suffers from a "disorder that destroys the pigmentation of the skin . . . It's in my family. . . . Using makeup evens it out, 'cause it makes blotches on the skin." The disease, vitiligo, is "more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peter Pan Speaks | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

Mather residents darted from booth to booth with painted faces and battle scars from the pie-throwing stand. And the older students tended to completely dominate some events, like the Moonwalk, an inflated air tunnel...

Author: By Jordan Schreiber, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: `Mather Madness' Strikes Residents, Area Children | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

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