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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instrumental in gaining the passage of roll call voting for the town meeting. She also worked for the passage of many of the town's comprehensive planning bylaws...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Longtime Med School News Office Head Dies | 1/11/1991 | See Source »

...since there's been a music industry. Several white performers of the '50s reaped untold success by mimicking or out and out stealing from unknown Black artists of the day. Although morally wrong, these thefts set the stage for widespread acceptance of what we know to be Rock 'n' Roll...

Author: By Marc E. Warner, | Title: Lies, Lies Baby | 1/7/1991 | See Source »

...county its own option on whether to permit gambling, just as it does with alcohol. In fact, gaming has been readily available to Mississippians for years. Boats offering "dinner cruises" regularly leave Gulfport and Biloxi bound for international waters in the Gulf of Mexico. The slots and dice usually roll long before the boats reach the 12-mile limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gambling: Betting on The Devil | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

...Drugs, Rock & Roll Call Eric Bogosian a performance artist, monologist, short-story writer or even playwright. By whatever name, he is one of the shrewdest contemporary critics of the phony, the self-serving, the amoral and the damned. This off-Broadway collection of skits is a caustic vision of greed and substance abuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of '90: Theater | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

...common global denominator by its entertainment engine. But danger signals are already present: too few movies characterized by nuance, or even good old American nuttiness; more and more disco-dance epics, sickly sweet romances and shoot-'em-up, cut-'em-up, blow-'em-up Schwarzenegger characters; rock 'n' roll that never gets beyond heavy breathing and head banging; blockbuster books that read like T shirts. The combination of the foreign marketplace and a young domestic audience nourished on TV sitcoms, soaps and MTV may be deadly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Leisure Empire | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

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