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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. BRIGITTE HELM, 88, the robot-vamp actress in Fritz Lang's 1926 cult classic Metropolis; in Ascona, Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 24, 1996 | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

...Rainforest Cafe's Motley Fool message board--an online repository of comments about a fast-growing chain of rain forest-themed restaurants--is a cyber lovefest. Investors delight in the restaurants' lifelike robot birds and monkeys, gleefully report on the long lines to get in, and cheer on the company's latest expansion plans. With the stock's meteoric rise--up some 700% since its IPO last year--postings often lapse into euphoria: "I love this company"; "I love every dollar I have thrown into it"; and the group's oft-repeated rallying cry, "Let it RAIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A CHORUS OF TRUE BELIEVERS | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

Auction fever crossed time zones faster than Air Force One. In Chicago Ralph Goldenberg, whose wife Helyn is a senior vice president of Sotheby's, spent $63,000 to buy J.F.K.'s putter, a Robot K-44, and gave it to his business partner, Christopher Heymeyer. The latter is now a minor celebrity at the Board of Trade, where the two work. "Everybody on the trading floor says, 'There's the guy; his partner bought him the putter.' There's a huge excitement," Heymeyer says. "Everybody on the trading floor says, 'Can I see it? Can I touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT PRICE CAMELOT? | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

...frequently), their intimate experiences with war and the army and their respect for democracy. By the same token, she demonizes Yigal Amir and the religious fanaticism which produced him as a cancer in the midst of a generally well-meaning population: "[The assassin] was just a gun, a robot deprived of any human identity, someone who had been indoctrinated by a well-oiled system of hate, a system that was deeply ingrained in our society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Sentimental 'Sorrow' | 5/2/1996 | See Source »

...jingly theme song explaining that a mad scientist, Dr. Clayton Forrester (Trace Beaulieu), is conducting a bizarre "experiment." He has launched into space a satellite containing a human named Mike (head writer Michael J. Nelson) and the automatons Tom Servo (operated and voiced by Kevin Murphy) and Crow T. Robot (Beaulieu again) and forced them to watch bad films: Ed Wood classics like Bride of the Monster and stuff way, way worse, like the 1965 Attack of the the Eye Creatures--a movie so inept that its makers put the word the twice in the title. Mike and the 'bots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ROBOCRITICS TAKE FLIGHT | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

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