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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to dress up as a ninja." --James Celestin...

Author: By Pamela S. Wasserstein, | Title: "What are you dressing up as for Halloween?" | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

...trying to do are things that serve the best interests of Oracle, its shareholders and society at large, because that's what makes me happy." He preaches the virtues of simplicity and compatibility--at least in terms of using technology--yet he conducts his business like a Ninja warrior. "In every private conversation I've had with Larry over the past 15 or 20 years," says an industry figure, "the metaphors when he's speaking of competitors are always violent. He'll say, 'This is the quarter we put a knife in their chest,' or, 'The life will be choked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LARRY ELLISON: THE PRINCE OF SAN MATEO | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

Even though emotional range is not generally demanded of humanoid marine reptiles, a new, live-action version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, set to air on Fox in September, will feature a female turtle named Venus De Milo alongside the original four males. In Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book, an updated version of the Rudyard Kipling story that will also air on Fox Saturday mornings in the fall, a 13-year-old girl named Nahbiri moves to India with her father and has to face the wrenching challenge of adjusting to a different culture. Things would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEWITCHING TEEN HEROINES | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...summer, in Air Force One, we will have the opportunity to envision what it would be like to have a Chief Executive, played by Harrison Ford himself, who can deal Die Hard-style with international terrorists when they make the mistake of commandeering his plane. "He's not a ninja or anything," explains Armyan Bernstein, one of Air Force One's four producers, "but he knows how to fight." The back story is that this President served in Vietnam as a helicopter pilot and won a Congressional Medal of Honor for fighting his way out of the jungle after...

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

...Hollywood"--built up the town's most imposing list of talent. His masterful, softly menacing style, along with his courtship of nontraditional clients like Coca-Cola and Credit Lyonnais, transformed the old stereotype of the talent agent as a hustling flesh peddler into that of a sleek ninja visionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE 10% DISSOLUTION | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

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