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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matter, and to last. Whether by typifying 1991 or by transcending it, whether by embodying some great theme of the day or by quietly capturing the everyday, they will reverberate as long as, maybe longer than, the dramatic headlines now shouting at us. They will be, in Ezra Pound's phrase, news that stays news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991 | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...give way to a Russia-Firster like Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who has fascistic tendencies, territorial ambitions and an ominously large popular following. The U.S. might then find itself dragged back into another open-ended international crisis that would make the meagerness of its current aid program seem penny-wise and pound-foolish. After all, the Marshall Plan and other programs to reconstruct Germany and Japan after World War II were arguably as important to avoiding World War III as was the containment of communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

Howard, a 5-foot-9, 176-pound native of Cleveland, also would become only the fifth Heisman winner who was not a quarterback or running back...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Howard Set to Cop Top Football Honor | 12/14/1991 | See Source »

Cultural Survival Biannual Bazaar--the non-profit human rights organization Cultural Survival presents arts and crafts from all over the world. In Pound Hall at the Law School. Saturday, Dec. 14 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 15 from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MISCELLANEOUS | 12/12/1991 | See Source »

...Pound for pound, Macaulay Culkin is the biggest star in Hollywood. Weighing in at a ton less than Arnold Schwarzenegger, the 11-year-old nevertheless is in possession of one of the prized titles of the business: Home Alone, the third highest grossing movie of all time. (Only E.T. and Star Wars have made more money.) The 1990 film has transformed him from a precocious if mischievous New York City child actor into a heavyweight pop icon -- with the negotiating clout to match. And at the moment, no one dares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Home, but Not Alone | 12/9/1991 | See Source »

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