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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Beatle Paul McCartney yesterday after being knighted on bended knee by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPEAK | 3/12/1997 | See Source »

...ordered by Harry Truman that demolished the interior of the White House, even the walls are 20th century. The mattress is no treat; the furniture is lugubrious Victorian; and for good measure the place is supposed to be haunted. Winston Churchill is said to have sighted Lincoln's ghost. Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands reported an ectoplasm in a stovepipe hat. Bill Clinton thought he saw some easy dollars. He must have been mistaken. They weren't that easy after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEP RIGHT UP | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

...foaming at the mouth, her panties shoved down to her knees. Her T shirt had been used to strangle her, and gangster-style graffiti was scrawled on her abdomen in black ink. While the country focused on the case of another brutalized child--this one a privileged little beauty queen in Colorado--public outrage over the comatose Girl X was at first virtually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELATED OUTRAGE FOR GIRL X | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

Once upon a time, she was a Queen of England--on the TV screen--but now she's a hardworking Member of Parliament. Jackson, who has two Best Actress Oscars, and was a 1972 Emmy winner for Elizabeth R, walked away from movie celebrity in 1992 and won election as Labour's representative for Hampstead and Highgate. During a 27-year acting career, she suffered from extreme stage fright; she told the Guardian last September that "the longer I carried on, the greater the fear became.'' In the House of Commons, however, she is fearless. Proud of her working-class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Feb. 24, 1997 | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

Better yet, Prom Queen of the Indies. Her crisp, dark beauty radiates the easy breeding of old-Hollywood royalty. Her wide, playful mouth suggests the young Katharine Hepburn; its I-know-I've-got-it look can be read as poise or derision. Waif-thin, Posey must have a Slinky for a spine; her walk is a loosey-goosey dance, as if house music were playing nonstop in her head. The aura is of a Park Avenue deb who gets her kicks downtown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: QUEEN OF THE INDIES | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

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