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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people to the story about the mass suicide of the Rancho Santa Fe cultists who believed the Hale-Bopp comet summoned them to heaven, or the one about Martin Luther King Jr.'s son Dexter visiting James Earl Ray and saying he thought him innocent of his father's murder, or the account of George Bush parachuting out of a plane because his only other jump was during World War II, when Japanese gunners shot up his torpedo bomber and he was forced to bail out over the Pacific, getting banged up and badly cut. In his autobiography he cited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DREAMING THE NEWS | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...still young, and already two White House-themed thrillers, Shadow Conspiracy and Absolute Power, have passed through theaters, and a third arrives next week: Murder at 1600, in which Wesley Snipes, playing a Washington detective, investigates a homicide at the well-known Pennsylvania Avenue address. These films are only the most recent manifestations of a trend that dates back to Dave, the 1993 comedy in which Kevin Kline plays a gentle presidential impostor. Since then we have probably seen more Presidents onscreen than, say, strippers and volcanologists combined. We have seen Presidents and ex-Presidents as the lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ACTING PRESIDENTS | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...years, conspiracy theorists who believe that the U.S. government plotted the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. have focused on Merrell McCullough, an undercover Memphis, Tennessee, policeman who was seen crouching beside King's body moments after the civil rights leader was shot at the Lorraine Motel 29 years ago last week. According to the theorists, McCullough was a secret U.S. agent who helped cover up the plot by pointing toward the flophouse from which the FBI maintains James Earl Ray fired the fatal shot, leading police away from a brushy area across the street where several witnesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KING CONSPIRACY UPDATE | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...first is that there are other cultural mascots such as the Vikings, Pirates and Cowboys, and no one is offended by them. This comparison ignores the history of murder and oppression that has been perpetrated upon Native Americans and the widespread white supremacy that enables such mistreatment to continue to this...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: The Name Game | 4/12/1997 | See Source »

...pirates' lair, Medora dances for the pirates and expresses her love for Conrad, who agrees, for her sake, to free the other slave girls. But this decision angers his close friend Birbanto (Lazlo Berdo), who concocts a plot whereby Conrad is drugged in his sleep and Birbanto attempts to murder him. Medora fights with Birbanto and slashes his arm before the pirates carry her off to the pasha. Conrad, awaking to find Medora gone, is consoled by a suddenly "loyal" Birbanto...

Author: By Christiana Briggs, | Title: 'Le Corsaire' Sails to Success: | 4/10/1997 | See Source »

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