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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should choose the Beatles. This phenomenally popular 1960s group left its mark in the world of pop as one of the greatest bands ever. The Beatles were a leader of the musical revolution. Their music and personality will never be replicated. John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr should be immortalized. ANASTACIA HOWLEY Havertown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 31, 1999 | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Technology also demands that time be measured ever more precisely. An accurate mechanical clock proved to be so valuable to the British maritime industry in the eighteenth century that the government awarded a hefty prize to its inventor, Joseph Harrison (a story elegantly told in Dava Sobel's 1995 best seller Longitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Riddle of Time | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

That's especially true since he is played by the marvelous Chow Yun-Fat, who interprets the role as if the cranky volatility of Yul Brynner and Rex Harrison never existed. He has all his hair, doesn't comically fracture his English and, though he occasionally loses his temper, never loses his quiet wit. There is about him a sort of watchful wariness, a thoughtful, insinuating manliness that avoids macho strutting in favor of bemused calculation. He is, in short, an absolute monarch for our postfeminist time. Cutting through the epic gesturings of Andy Tennant's direction, he provides reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The End of a Long Reign | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...Harrison Ave., 4th Floor (T: Broadway...

Author: By Annie Bourneuf, Kirstin Butler, and Jenny Tu, S | Title: The Field Guide: Art in Boston | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...mend fences is to bring back pollster CELINDA LAKE. A specialist on the women's vote and a favorite of many Democratic activists, Lake was hired with great fanfare months ago, then promptly sidelined. She is expected to be taking a larger role, working in tandem with lead pollster HARRISON HICKMAN. Gore also plans to meet with two dozen or so influential Democratic women to talk strategy and policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Follow-Up: Wolf Role Elicits Howls From Pro-Gore Women | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

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