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Dates: during 1990-1999
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One of the most striking displays of Warhol's work is 10 images of popular characters from a 1981 portfolio entitled Myths. On one wall hang pictures of Mickey Mouse, Howdy Doody, Santa Claus, Greta Garbo, Dracula, Superman, Uncle Sam, the Wicked Witch of the West, Mammy and a self...

Author: By Tara B. Reddy, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Three Masters on Mickey Mouse | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

HERE IS THE UNLIKELIEST GOOD NOVEL of the year. The wambling hero of Walter Kirn's SHE NEEDED ME (Pocket Books; $20) is a pale young fellow named Weaver % Walquist, who, becalmed and lacking direction, joins the antiabortion protest squad of an evangelical church in St. Paul, Minnesota. He collides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Oct. 12, 1992 | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

HURRICANES AS WICKED AS ANdrew are thought to come along perhaps twice a century. Earthquakes shudder on and off, but the big, continent-cracking convulsions tend to space themselves out over generations. Biblical floods are rare, like killer tidal waves, volcanic eruptions and the other cyclical calls to humility in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catastrophe 101 | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

Republicans got some wicked comfort noting that for more than a century, Democrats have been kidnapping Lincoln without credit. Historian David Donald wrote an essay in 1951 on "Getting Right with Lincoln," detailing how Presidents in trouble had claimed kinship. Franklin Roosevelt once suggested that Lincoln was a father of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Just Wild About Harry | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

For about an hour -- while Streep is doing her nonpareil wicked-witch routine -- you can have a good, mean time at this movie, in synch with the cartoonish comedy (Meryl tumbling down a staircase that has about 359 steps) and elaborate special effects (Is that a hole in Goldie's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beverly Hills Corpse | 8/3/1992 | See Source »

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