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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...catty, hysterical psuedo-documentary which takes a look at the catty, hysterical world of competitive ballroom dancing. Perversely festooned women and frighteningly suntanned men duke it out in this battle of the shallowest, as our hero, the homely Fran, tries to win the heart of a pretty-boy rebel who wants to bring his daring pasa doble to the Australian Grand Prix...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMING SOON TO HARVARD | 7/2/1996 | See Source »

...almost anything to advance his companies. It's an act that plays well, and compared with the standard model overstuffed British executive--well, the comparison just isn't fair. Sir David Frost, the transatlantic television personality and partner in Virgin Radio, says, "Richard has always presented himself as a rebel against the Establishment, although now he is an establishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANY TIMES A VIRGIN | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

Everyone around Jordan agrees that Ralph was the original rebel in the Clark clan. His father, William ("Todd") Clark, arrived in Montana as a homesteader in 1914. When Ralph was growing up during the '30s, he saw many struggling neighbors foreclosed. Todd Clark often bought up their land, eventually amassing thousands of acres, which passed to his four sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONTANA FAMILY VALUES | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

Injuries and frustration told the story for the next nine games. At one point, nine players were sidelined and Tomassoni was left scraping for healthy bodies to put on the ice. At times it seemed like any Harvard opponent was as conquerable as the Death Star was for the rebel forces in "Star Wars...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, | Title: Icemen Overcome Midseason Problems, Shine in Playoffs | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

Franklin Graham was not really a rebel. He did kid stuff, like drinking, smoking and wearing his hair long. To rebel intellectually is much more difficult. Franklin, like most Americans, was taught at an early age to believe in mythologies and spirits. While not embracing his father's Evangelicalism until he was 22, he was never a nonbeliever. Had Franklin truly rebelled, he would have read philosophy, embraced biology and science and chosen his own value system based on empirical observations of the real world. RAYMOND R. ACKERMAN Culver City, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 3, 1996 | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

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