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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...theaters and a video wall so large--126 ft. long, 10 1/2 ft. high--that it could theoretically accommodate 300 couch potatoes at the same time. Reporters love the Newseum, of course, but so do the schoolkids who come by the busload. This is more than just a tourist trap; it is a $50 million testament to the terrifying insecurity that lurks at the heart of American journalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEWSEUM: EDWARD R. MURROW SLEPT HERE | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

Shelat stressed that the program is no designed to trap students...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang, | Title: Program Catches Computer Science Cheaters | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...keep my personal life separate from my professional life," says DeGeneres while sitting in a patio at her home in Beverly Hills. "In every interview I ever did"--she's squinting, too polite to interrupt this one even though the sun is clearly in her eyes--"everyone tried to trap me into saying I was gay. And I learned every way to dodge that. Or if they just blatantly asked me, I would say I don't talk about my personal life. I mean, I really tried to figure out every way to avoid answering that question for as long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: ROLL OVER, WARD CLEAVER | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

Powers said he and Ginsberg became friends in the late 1950s as part of a larger local poetry community. "Allen sprung the trap for me, and I was out as a being," he said...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Beat Guru Ginsberg Recalled by His Fans | 4/9/1997 | See Source »

...task for Harvard students seems to be to preserve some semblance of political correctness in campus discussions without falling into the P.C. trap...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Throwing Off the Veil of Political Correctness | 4/5/1997 | See Source »

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