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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The short, weird career of Andy Kaufman poses a single, overriding issue: Was he a self-conscious genius of the put-on, cleverly calculating his effects, which were ever poised on the thin line that separates childish innocence from transgression? Or was he just another of those sociopaths, unable to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Paean To A Pop Postmodernist | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

As a humanist and internationalist, Einstein had spent most of his life espousing a gentle pacifism, and he became one of Gandhi's foremost admirers. But in 1939 he signed one of the century's most important letters, one that symbolizes the relationship between science and politics. "It may become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Mattered And Why | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Other great leaders were part of this process. Winston Churchill stood up to Hitler even earlier than Roosevelt did, when it took far more courage. Harry Truman, a plainspoken man with gut instincts for what was right, forcefully began the struggle against Soviet expansionism, a challenge that Roosevelt was too...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Mattered And Why | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

In his approach to domestic issues, individual rights and the liberties of colonial subjects, Churchill turned out to be a romantic refugee from a previous era who ended up on the wrong side of history. He did not become Prime Minister, he incorrectly proclaimed in 1942, "to preside over the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Mattered And Why | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Gandhi's life of civil disobedience began while he was a young lawyer in South Africa when, because he was a dark-skinned Indian, he was told to move to a third-class seat on a train even though he held a first-class ticket. He refused, and ended up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Mattered And Why | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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