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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those bare clicks, murmurs and whines recorded by the plane's two black boxes, then synchronized with ground-control radar tracks, are all the "facts" investigators have so far to construct a picture of what happened to Flight 990. But do they add up to the terrible possibility that one of the pilots deliberately sent the plane into its death dive, committing an unspeakable act of self-destruction and mass murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Prayer Before Dying | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...Jiang from the moment Deng tapped him to head the party after the June 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. "I feel as if I am walking on thin ice," Jiang said then, and even now his nervous smile and effete hand wave suggest someone who knows he's treading delicate ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The China Deal: The Imperial Dragon | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...caught it. I caught that ball," Johnson said. "It was an inch from the ground, but I caught...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Johnson's Grab Wins 116th Game For Yale | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Hoffman simply talks about giving audiences common ground with the most ostensibly unlovable of souls. "Actors are responsible to the people we play," he says. "I don't label or judge. I just play them as honestly and expressively and creatively as I can, in the hope that people who would ordinarily turn their heads in disgust instead think, 'What I thought I'd feel about that guy, I don't totally feel right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing the Margins | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...that churned up is seen in the show's kaleidoscope of imagery, ranging from a full-size mannequin of a rather worn-looking camel by Nancy Graves through documentary photos of Chris Burden after a self-inflicted gun wound to a film of Robert Smithson running along the rocky ground of his massive and most famous earthwork, Spiral Jetty (1970), which juts into Utah's Great Salt Lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Creative Chaos | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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