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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...produced two sons and, even as she battled bulimia and depression, joined her husband in the service of his mother. She brought her own style to the stiff Windsor charm. In 1985 she and Charles visited the U.S. for the first time together. "At a White House dinner," says J. CARTER BROWN, who was director of the National Gallery of Art, "she was seated next to Mikhail Baryshnikov. It was customary to take the menu cards that were at each seat and pass them around to everyone at the table to autograph. When Baryshnikov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN LIVING MEMORY | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

...immortal Lon Chaney Jr., fields a lot of questions about rabbits. Finish with the languorous, creepy Hollywood pic The Day of the Locust (1975), with Meredith, Karen Black and Donald Sutherland as a fellow actually named Homer Simpson. It earned Meredith his first Best Supporting Actor nomination (they would stiff him twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Couch Potato Guide: So Long, Mickey | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

There are no snakes, no Nazis, no ark or precious stones. There are, however, lots of flying punches, bruised cheekbones and bloody hands, a lovely lady and, of course, the stiff upper lip and drop-dead good looks of Harrison Ford. It may be years later, but Indy hasn't lost his touch for cunning escapes and coming out on top at the end of a long day. Only this time the adventure doesn't star Jones but the President of the United States--and it's not in the jungles of Central America or Asia but in the nation...

Author: By Christiana Briggs, | Title: Executive Decision: 'AF1' Flies on Star Power | 8/1/1997 | See Source »

...times, the shorts directors got composers to cavort onscreen. Some look embarrassed--check out Richard Rodgers' stiff delivery and Lorenz Hart's plaid jammies in Makers of Melody--while others are to the camera born. In the 1934 Hollywood Rhythm, tubby lyricist Mack Gordon (Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?) is fast with a quip and light on his feet; doing a Latin dance, he irrepressibly shouts, "I got rumbatism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: MAKERS OF MELODY | 7/28/1997 | See Source »

...that could have been stiff upper lip. Even as colleagues on the ground rehearsed procedures that cosmonauts Vasily Tsibliyev and Alexander Lazutkin must undertake to fix their troubled station, Russian commentators candidly admitted that the damaged part of the station could be a Pandora's box. Rammed by another Progress on June 25, Mir's Spektr science module suffered a foot-long tear in one of its sail-like solar panels and an inch-wide breach in its hull, depressurizing the interior. To keep the rest of Mir's precious atmosphere from spilling as well, the crew hurriedly sealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A CLOSE SHAVE IN ORBIT | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

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