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...able to go back to the American West and see what really happened at the OK Corral during the assassinations of Sitting Bull and Wild Bill Hickok and at the Battle of Little Big Horn. On the way, suppose you happen to stumble across Wyatt Earp, Annie Oakley and even Queen Victoria, with whom you share a few drinks and swap stories and. This may sound like the plot for Bill and Ted's Excellent Wild West Adventure, but it is actually the basic premise of Thomas Berger's novel The Return of Little Big Man, which manages to pull...

Author: By Rheanna Bates, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: For Dustin Hoffman's Golden Years | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...Rockets took control with their big run but with 2:55 left in the third quarter, Olajuwon was ejected with a flagrant foul after an altercation with Charles Oakley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Magic Keeps the Touch Against Cleveland | 3/26/1999 | See Source »

...musical about sharpshooter Annie Oakley and her love affair with Frank Butler as they toured in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show has a long and illustrious memory lane, dominated by the legendary Ethel Merman. But the production that opened on Broadway last week--with Peters returning to the stage for the first time since The Goodbye Girl in 1993--takes a new bead on the familiar old target and hits the bull's-eye with ease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: What Comes Natur'lly | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

...hard to stick around in Velcro Valley. Successful firms have erupted from the Orange County youth-apparel industry to become globally recognized brands--among them, Quiksilver, Oakley, Billabong USA and Stussy. Yet just as many such labels--including Gotcha, Lightning Bolt, Vision Street Wear, Jimmy-Z, Maui & Sons, Mossimo and others--rode huge waves of sales only to wipe out in a few years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killer Profits In Velcro Valley | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

Hundreds of companies marketing clothes and accessories dedicated to the "board-sports" life-style are operating in Velcro Valley. They range from Oakley, the $200 million sunglasses-and-footwear firm housed in a futuristic, $47 million hilltop bunker, to smaller fry like Black Flys, Split and Volcom, crowded into Costa Mesa and Huntington Beach industrial parks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killer Profits In Velcro Valley | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

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