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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moviegoers recently exiting the showing of Gump near my Manhattan building probably walked smack into the local legless beggar. Poverty, homelessness and physical disability are not what one likes to grapple with on a nice day out / with the kids. But one thing you can bet on: his legs cannot be restored by Industrial Light & Magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forrest Gump Is Dumb | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

...make the federal laws tougher," she says, "and the states are trying to coordinate their laws." Rangers around the country were heartened by the conviction of Don Lewis, a nationally known crossbow hunter, who had been brazen enough to have himself videotaped attacking a herd of elk -- smack in the middle of Yellowstone. Lewis pleaded guilty, was fined $15,000 and served 30 days of an 18-month prison sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Killing Fields | 8/22/1994 | See Source »

...While this is a serious financial threat," she added, "It's certainly not a sudden smack in the face...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: A BATTLE OVER BENEFITS | 2/26/1994 | See Source »

...elegy to the opera queen," addresses the larger question of a universal appeal of opera to gays in general. His last chapter, entitled "A Pocket Guide to Queer Moment's in Opera," is a seemingly random (and highly personal) collection of instances in well-known operas that smack of ambiguity and promise beneath the surface...

Author: By Jefferson Packer, | Title: The Phantoms of Opera's Divas | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

...Whinin' 'n' cryin'. Take take me take me take me, If You Want Me To Stay. Sly SO slooowed down and laiiid back, smooth and no fast and furious, sly thick beats sounding like he's been ridin' a HORSE a horse of course of course unless its a SMACK and JB himself sounding...restrained? So here it comes, full-force Mothership, landing at a DISCO nearest you and now, twenty-years later still goin' down pickin' yer ass and then smellin' th' funky finger, right in yo' nose. From my ass to you. Achoo...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Make It Funky | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

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