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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...honest reporter for a moment), the Backstreet Boys delivered an energetic and completely spellbinding show. The concert struck like an avalanche, as the boys emerged from the sky (they might as well been "gods" descending from the heavens to their shrieking fans) amidst smoke, light and thundering fireworks to the opening score of Star Wars. They followed their "Larger Than Life" opening with other Millennium debut material, each song displaying a harder and edgier sound than their older hits. Likewise, the choreographed dancing and effects were red-hot. The entire scene was mass hysteria--an electric visual thrill that ignited...

Author: By Crimson Staff, | Title: CONCERT REVIEWS . . . | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

David Vieira, who had been banished to the Dorado's deck to smoke a cigarette, spotted the flare and went inside to wake the captain, Skip Harris...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Law School Professor Rescued At Sea | 9/23/1999 | See Source »

...irony is that Freaks, the least strenuously hip of the shows, may stand the strongest chance of controversy. The "freaks" of the title are Led Zeppelin-listening Midwestern burnouts who smoke--not just tobacco, of course. "The show will never be pro pot," executive producer Judd Apatow avers. "But every time a kid smokes pot, you can't show him coughing and retching and losing his mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Their Major Is Alienation | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...image of black lungs can?t quell your urge to smoke, perhaps the chance to nab a speedier ticket to heaven will do the trick. On Friday, the Vatican released an updated manual on indulgences, with several additions to the acts of faith that lessen a Catholic?s time spent in purgatory ?- the heavenly holding pen outside the pearly gates. The pope announced the church will now give "partial" indulgences to parishioners who quit smoking, even for a day. (A full indulgence is achieved when the self-restraint is accompanied by confession and communion.) The money that would have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where There's Smoking, There's (Hell)Fire | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

...year-old Larry Gene Ashbrook of Fort Worth, dressed in black and spewing anti-Baptist rhetoric, burst into a church service for teenagers Wednesday evening and opened fire, killing seven and then himself. He was "cussing royally," said one survivor, but he was calm enough to both smoke a cigarette and empty three clips of a semiautomatic handgun into hallowed air and young bodies. Now the Wedgwood Baptist Church, on the day of Fort Worth?s annual "See You at the Pole" festival (in which teen Baptists at local schools meet outside for group prayers at the flagpole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Fort Worth, a Church Is Violated by Gunfire | 9/16/1999 | See Source »

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