Penny Marshall's 1990 film Awakenings, which was nominated for several Oscars, is based on neurologist Oliver Sacks ' 1973 account of his psychiatric patients at Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx who were paralyzed by a form of encephalitis but briefly responded to the drug L-dopa.

" The gesture made it into films of the time: the title character played by Julia Roberts did it in a polo scene in Pretty Woman ( 1990 ), and characters played by Penny Marshall and Michael J.

* Penny Bae Bridges ( born 1990 ), American actress

* 1990: Penny Jamieson became the first female Anglican diocesan bishop in the world.

* 1990: Penny Ante: The Motion Picture … Aunt

Like most expansion franchises, the Magic struggled for several seasons, and as a result were awarded high draft picks in several consecutive years, including Dennis Scott in 1990, Shaquille O ' Neal in 1992, and Chris Webber, who was traded for a package including Penny Hardaway in 1993.

Mulligan first ran for the was Illinois House of Representatives in 1990, losing the Republican primary to conservative incumbent Penny Pullen by five votes.

* Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less ( TV movie )-Writer ( teleplay ) 1990

Penny Bae Bridges ( born July 29, 1990 ) is an American actress.

* Craig Jamieson ( 1979 head prefect ), the first Natal rugby captain to lift the Currie Cup ( 1990 ), 1995 Rugby World Cup Tournament manager

The term abugida was suggested by Peter T. Daniels in his 1990 typology of writing systems.

The word Applet was first used in 1990 in PC Magazine.

The Alan Parsons Project was an English progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of singer Eric Woolfson and keyboardist Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians.

The one occasion where the band was introduced as " The Alan Parsons Project " in a live performance was at Night of the Proms 1990 ( at the time of the group's break-up ), featuring all Project regulars except Woolfson who was present but behind the scenes, while Parsons stayed at the mixer except during the last song, where he played acoustic guitar.

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ( ADA ) is a law that was enacted by the U. S. Congress in 1990.

It was signed into law on July 26, 1990, by President George H. W. Bush, and later amended with changes effective January 1, 2009.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ( EEOC ) was charged with interpreting the 1990 law with regard to discrimination in employment.

The computer was designated an IEEE Milestone in 1990.

The transformative power of the song was investigated by journalist Bill Moyers in a documentary released in 1990.

* 1990 – Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton found to date, was discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.

OCS was eventually followed by the modestly improved Enhanced Chip Set ( ECS ) in 1990 and finally by the partly 32-bit Advanced Graphics Architecture ( AGA ) in 1992.

The Grothendieck Festschrift was a three-volume collection of research papers to mark his sixtieth birthday ( falling in 1988 ), and published in 1990.

AIX / 370 was released in 1990 with functional equivalence to System V Release 2 and 4. 3BSD as well as IBM enhancements.

Ethernet had become essentially universal by 1990, and it was time to build Ethernet into Macs direct from the factory.

The logo was once again changed in 1990 into an abstract version of the previous one.

However, the game system was reviewed in 1990 in Dragon # 155 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in " The Role of Computers " column.

The Andrei Sakharov Prize For Writer's Civic Courage was established in October 1990.

It was approved in Japan circa 1982 and Germany in 1990.

New York City Opera's production in August 1990 and July 1991 ( total of 18 performances ) won the 1990 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival and was telecast on the PBS show " Live at Lincoln Center " on November 7, 1990.

For example, it was added to the New York City Opera Company repertoire in 1990.

Stan Fortuna, ordained as a priest in the Bronx in 1990.

* 1990: Pauline Bebe became the first female rabbi in France, although she was ordained in England.

She was ordained a bishop of the Anglican Church in New Zealand in June 1990.

* 1990: Anglican women were ordained in Ireland.

In 1990 he was ordained Bishop of Kyrene and was appointed Representative of Patriarch Parthenios in Athens ( 1990 – 1997 ).

On 18 February 1990, he was ordained bishop of the Eparchy ( Diocese ) of Alexandria for Egypt and Sudan by the imposition of the hands of His Beatitude Jean Pierre XVIII.

In June 1990, Honeytree married John Richard Miller, also an ordained minister.

#† Edward William O ' Rourke ( 1971 – 1990 ; appointed bishop on May 24, 1971 ; ordained a bishop on July 15, 1971 ; retired on January 22, 1990 ; died September 29, 1999 )

# John Joseph Myers ( 1990 – 2001 ; appointed coadjutor bishop in 1987 ; ordained a bishop on September 3, 1987 ; became diocesan bishop by right of succession on January 22, 1990 ; appointed Archbishop of Newark on July 24, 2001 )

He was ordained for the Patriarch in the St. Michael's Cathedral in Belgrade on 2 December 1990, and in Patriarchate of Peć monastery, the ancient seat of the Serbian Church, on 22 May 1994.

Bishop Mendéz had already publicly ordained two seminarians of the SSPV to the priesthood in 1990.

Born in Valencia, Spain, Carles Gordó was ordained a priest in 1951, rising to become Bishop of Tortosa in 1969 and Archbishop of Barcelona in 1990, a post he held until stepping down in 2004.

In 1990 Wilhelm Leber was ordained to the ministry of Apostle in the New Apostolic Church.

In 1990, Hsin Pei was fully ordained as a Buddhist monk.

Father Stan was ordained as a priest in the Bronx in 1990.