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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incurable hot-doggers, there is a daredevil maneuver called The Superman. When students are filing out of class, you grab on to the hold-on bar in a compartment and do a mini chin up, lifting your legs to get airborne. Note: You need hordes of Chem 10 students spinning through the doors to fuel your flight. Without them, your free, dizzyingly enjoyable circular ride is going nowhere...

Author: By N.o. Yuen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: You Want a Revolution? | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...exist in a dismal, colorless world run by evil and greed. Suddenly, a streak of orange blazes across the sky. It's a plane, it's superman.... No, it's a bird...

Author: By Diana R. Movius, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Take Me Out to (and Knock Me Out at) the Ballet | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

Spike and Mike began experimenting with short animation in the '50s and '60s when they hosted small concerts and midnight rock and roll events that opened with animated shorts such as Betty Boop and Superman. Soon they realized that people were more interested in the cartoons than in the actual music, though this could be a comment on the quality of the music rather than that of the cartoons. In 1977 Spike and Mike premiered their first-ever animation festival, and since 1990 they have been running the Sick and Twisted Festival in the fall, along with the Classic Animation...

Author: By Dunia Dickey and Jennifer Paniza, S | Title: Cinemanic: More Sick, More Twisted | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

...contrast to the times when hollywood stereotyped Chinese men as a bunch of Charlie Chans, Bruce Lee triumphed against the odds and showed the West a living, breathing Chinese superman. Lee represents the struggle of American minorities who are treated unfairly because of the color of their skin. WIBOWO SUMARDJO Auckland, New Zealand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 12, 1999 | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

Forget for a moment The Godfather--the 21 million-selling book and the movie that virtually created the Mafia as literary and cinematic subject. Forget The Fortunate Pilgrim, The Sicilian, The Last Don and other best sellers. Forget Superman, Earthquake and the rest of the blockbusters. Forget two Academy Awards. Forget that he wrote some of the best stuff ever about the American family and the Italian-American immigrant experience. Forget that all this was done by the son of illiterate immigrant parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: MARIO PUZO | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

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