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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sharpness of the turn right after takeoff would have been more appropriate for a bumper car ride at the local fair. And when landing, the pilots set the right side of the plane down, and, then, with a loud bang, let the left side fell to the runway...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Fly the Polish Skies--If You Dare | 3/23/1994 | See Source »

Land-lubbers will prefer the Vineyard to Nantucket because the ferry ride from Woods Hole is just 45 minutes--as opposed to the two-hour-plus trip to Nantucket...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Get Away to the Vineyard | 3/23/1994 | See Source »

...might have disappeared permanently if not for its canny ability simultaneously to buck and ride the new-wave trend, grafting its brawny, blues-inflected guitar licks onto slick synthesizer grooves and pulsing dance beats. On multiplatinum-selling albums such as 1983's Eliminator and 1985's Afterburner, guitarist Billy Gibbons, bassist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard (the only bandmate without one) perfected a progressive yet reassuringly familiar rock stance and tapped a huge audience that shared their ambivalence. By the end of the decade, however, their sound had become all too accurately described by the title of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: The Lone Rangers Ride Again | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

Exact plans for Disney's America are in a state of evolution. At first they included a water adventure with Lewis and Clark through pristine America, a factory town with a high-speed ride around a vat of molten steel, a county fair with a 60-ft.-high Ferris wheel, a Civil War fort and simulated skirmishes, old trains, a working farm and a Victory field where kids could parachute from a plane and operate tanks. These concepts are being reworked, but Disney is secretive on just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Mickey Comes Marching Home | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

...only everything could be this easy the first time around. Having this game be Schutt's first start is like having the sidewalk turn into Nerf for a child's first bicycle ride...

Author: By Fric F. Brown, | Title: Laxwomen Destroy BC | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

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