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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people at Playboy Magazine, in fact, were so smitten with the band that on two separate occasions, in 1961 and 1968, they were featured in the magazine making a formation in the shape of the Playboy bunny...

Author: By Jeremy L. Mccarter, | Title: Harvard Band Still Crazy After 75 Long Years | 10/1/1994 | See Source »

...Qidan produced exquisite ceramics, which were commissioned from skilled artisans in conquered Chinese states. They also developed elaborate funerary trappings, including yurt-shape urns, gold burial masks, painted wooden coffins and tomb guardians, that seem to indicate a melding of the region's major religions: Taoism, Buddhism and shamanism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Khan Collection | 9/26/1994 | See Source »

...knew the tiling on the ceiling was in bad shape and I knew they pumped sewage through pipes which passed through the room which often caused a lot of odor," Galletti says, "but asbestos never appeared to be a problem...

Author: By Tazeen Ahmad, | Title: College Closes Union Game Room | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...deal for a confessional book and eventually gone into politics. It is one of the several virtues of this thoughtful and hugely entertaining movie that it encourages such reflections. Written with clean-cut force by Paul Attanasio and directed with panache by Robert Redford -- they know how to efficiently shape a character and point a scene -- Quiz Show neither nostalgizes about nor inflates its drama. Rather it contextualizes it, makes us see it not merely as an antique controversy but as a symbolic turning point in recent cultural and social history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Barbarians At the Gate | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...Once you have hired co-masters and a group of tutors, you have inevitably given a certain tonality and shape to the house. There will be character and quality of a differentiating sort," he said. "Even architecture plays more of a role than those people realize...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs and Sarah E. Scrogin, S | Title: Report Draws Weak Support | 9/16/1994 | See Source »

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