** Booknotes interview with Powell on My American Journey, January 7, 1996.

In a 1996 interview with Michael Silverblatt, David Foster Wallace admitted that the structure of the first draft of Infinite Jest he gave to his editor Michael Pietsch was inspired by fractals, specifically the Sierpinski triangle ( aka Sierpinski gasket ) but that the edited novel is " more like a lopsided Sierpinsky Gasket ".

In a 1996 interview, Gloria Steinem criticized Limbaugh's use of the term feminazi.

" — interview in Wired 4. 07, July 1996

( There was a rumor that Sleuth was given the working title Who's Afraid of Stephen Sondheim ?, but in a New York Times interview on March 10, 1996, Shaffer denied ever using the title.

In a 1996 interview, McVeigh professed belief in " a God ", although he said he had " sort of lost touch with " Catholicism and " I never really picked it up, however I do maintain core beliefs.

American actor Peter Weller, whom Antonioni directed in Beyond the Clouds, explained in a 1996 interview: " There is no director living except maybe Kurosawa, Bergman, or Antonioni that I would fall down and do anything for.

Noel Gallagher stated in a 1996 interview that Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was the only songwriter he had respect for in the last ten years, and that he felt their music was similar enough that Cobain could have written " Wonderwall ".

An early 1996 Q magazine interview revealed that relations between Blur members had become very strained ; journalist Adrian Deevoy wrote that he found them " on the verge of a nervous breakup ".

" During the 1996 interview, Bin Laden accused the Saudi royal family of corruption.

In a 1996 interview, Ch ' en's brother, Li-fu, claimed that the reason behind Chiang Kai-shek acceptance was the need to have Soviet support during a period when his hold over the KMT was not guaranteed.

In 1996 the paper featured an interview with The Spice Girls, in which the band members gave their " Euro-sceptic and generally anti-labour " views on politics.

* Booknotes interview with Paul Hendrickson on The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War, October 27, 1996.

In a 1996 interview with the Miami Herald, Martin expressed an interest in performing on Broadway.

An early 1996 Q magazine interview revealed that relations between Blur members had become very strained ; journalist Adrian Deevoy wrote that he found them " on the verge of a nervous breakup ".

* Booknotes interview with Louise Barnett on Touched by Fire: The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer, October 13, 1996.

* " Conscience of the Otaking " -( 4-part 1995 / 1996 Animerica interview with former Gainax president Toshio Okada )

In a 1996 interview in The Wire Gane calls the " do-it-yourself " aesthetic behind Duophonic " empowering ", and says that by releasing one's own music " you learn ; it creates more music, more ideas ".

" On the subject of being too obscure, he said in a 1996 interview that " maybe the area where we're on dodgy ground, is this idea that you need great knowledge esoteric music to understand what we're doing.

Mann first conceived of what would become The Insider ( then known only as " The Untitled Tobacco Project ") between the Wigand-lite aired interview in November 1995 and February 1996, when the segment aired in its entirety and Bergman was asked to leave 60 Minutes.

In a 1996 interview for a Germs tribute documentary, Erlandson said: " I think every band is based on one song, and our band was based on " Forming "... Courtney brought it into rehearsal, and she knew, like, three chords and it was the only punk rock song we could play.

* Dario Gabbai ( Interview Code 142, conducted in English ) video testimony, interview conducted in November 1996, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, USC Shoah Foundation Institute, University of Southern California.

* Best of Carlos Santana – Wolf Marshall 1996 ; introduction and interview

Although words of reunion with DeYoung back to the fold were being suggested around the press and fan forums, on a July 7, 2011 interview by Rolling Stone Tommy Shaw states that he " think reunion is realistic " and stating that " what was true in 1983 was only more true in 1996 " in which their coming back together with DeYoung had " a very negative effect on each other ".

* Booknotes interview with Lloyd Kramer on Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Identities in an Age of Revolutions, 15 September 1996.

For the centenary of the VFL / AFL in 1996, the Australian Football Hall of Fame was established.

The elite Legend status was bestowed on 12 members of the Hall of Fame in 1996: Ron Barassi, Haydn Bunton Senior, Roy Cazaly, John Coleman, Jack Dyer, Polly Farmer, Leigh Matthews, John Nicholls, Bob Pratt, Dick Reynolds, Bob Skilton and Ted Whitten ( see above list for further details ).

Bowie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 17 January 1996.

Bowie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 17 January 1996.

* Member of the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame ( 1996 ).

Beginning in 1996, Kurt was featured in a hip hop display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

* Jeff Hall – rhythm guitar ( 1995 – 1996 )

* Gigi by Colette in English on cassettes recorded in public at Merkin Concert Hall at Abraham Goodman House in New York City, 1996

In September 1996, his Rickenbacker bass was featured in the Bang Your Head exhibition at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.

Time selected Nurmi as the greatest Olympian of all time in 1996, and IAAF named him among the first twelve athletes to be inducted into the IAAF Hall of Fame in 2012.

* 1908 – Kid Sheik, American trumpet player ( Preservation Hall Jazz Band ) ( d. 1996 )

Pink Floyd were finally inducted in 1996 and were the only " prog " band of any kind in the Hall.

In September 1996 Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and Case Western Reserve University cohosted Hard Travelin ': The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie, a 10-day conference of panel sessions, lectures, and concerts.

In 1996, Molitor became the second 40-year-old, after Hall of Famer Sam Rice, to have a 200-hit season, leading the league with 225, while also leading the league in singles with 167.

He was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1993 and since 1996 has provided commentary on Grands Prix for Austrian and German television on RTL.

He also played a main character, Jake Spoon, in the acclaimed television miniseries Lonesome Dove, a role for which he received many positive reviews, as well as the lead in a 1996 Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Captains Courageous.

Buck received the Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting from the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1987, and the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1996.

Throughout 1996 and 1997, the WWF lost much of its leading talent to WCW, including Razor Ramon ( Scott Hall ), Diesel ( Kevin Nash ), Sycho Sid ( Sid Eudy ), Alundra Blayze ( Debrah Miceli ), and Rick Rude ( Richard Rood ).

In 1965, he became the first horse to ever be voted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, an honour he held for thirty-one years and now shares with Canadian Equestrian Champion Big Ben ( inducted 1996 ).

Jefferson Airplane was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.

In 1996, Jefferson Airplane was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with Balin, Casady, Dryden, Kantner & Kaukonen attending & performing at the ceremony.

The one recent performance is a solo " Embryonic Journey " by Jorma Kaukonen ( from a 1996 New York City reunion for the Airplane's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ).

Benitez has been a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame since 1996.

He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1996.