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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...please don't tell me that these artifacts are important to history. History doesn't bid on them. And if indeed they prove to be important enough, that will take years of consensus, and then they will go to public places like museums or published collections (see Keats' Letters) when the time is right. In any case, the originals will not lie around like shrunken heads on a chiropractor's coffee table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Am I Bid For This Heart? | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...when Reynolds tried to tell his adopted son Quinton that he and Anderson were separating. "We went for a walk on the beach and I--I couldn't get to it. He looked at me and said, 'Daddy, the dance is over.' And I said, 'That's right. We started out dancing together, we still loved each other, but one goes to this side and one goes to that.' And he said, 'You're a man. It'll be all right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burt Reynolds: The Bandit's Back | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...distance with the champion. As a result, the transitions and fast feet that are so typical of the women's game were missing. The defensive styles made for some ugly hockey. Neither victory was easy. "They're a team I don't want to see again, I can tell you that," U.S. coach Ben Smith said of the Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hockey: Women's Hockey: A Game Of Their Own | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...documentary 4 Little Girls, which debuts on HBO on Feb. 23 at 9 p.m. E.T., Spike Lee sets out to tell the stories of the victims of the bombing and to explain why it happened when and where it did and the effect it had on the civil rights movement. The film was briefly in theatrical release last year, and has just been nominated for an Oscar. Shifting smoothly from the most poignant details of the girls' lives--Scout badges, a first pair of grownup shoes--to the actions of historical figures like the Rev. Martin Luther King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Act of Terror: Spike Lee recounts the Birmingham bombing | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...moralist, and I think the President of the U.S. should be a moral man and reflect that morality in his professional and private life. Time will tell if these allegations are true or false. Either way, it is a tragedy. MOLLY SCHROEPFER Dallas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 23, 1998 | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

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