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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There were lots of positive ideas, but impossible to act on all of them," he says...

Author: By David A. Whelan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Tale of Two Funds | 12/15/1998 | See Source »

...goes ballistically obsessive in his passion for the teacher. And his friendship with Blume turns into a nasty, near murderous rivalry. Suddenly Max is no longer quite as adorable as we thought he was. And an often deft, frequently droll little movie turns into an increasingly desperate juggling act, first trying to keep too many dark and weighty emotional objects aloft, then trying to bring them back to hand in a graceful and satisfying way. The goodwill Rushmore has accumulated in its early passages is not entirely dissipated by this frenzy, but its concluding klutziness does rather spoil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Class Clowns | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...forest, often from the Forest Service itself. It took 10 years of campaigning by Pilchuk, for instance, to get the big agency to back off plans to replace a modest gravel road in an old-growth forest with a broad, paved highway. Although there is no "Endangered Habitat Act," Phillips and other environmentalists were able, sometimes, to wrap the Endangered Species Act around old-growth forests. Two endangered birds, the spotted owl and the marbled murrelet, nest in the moss-grown upper limbs of the ancient trees. Phillips is awed by the murrelet, a seabird that flies to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forests: BONNIE PHILLIPS: Warrior on Wheels for The Great Northwest | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...clue. This is a man in search of a muse, which fate, in the form of screenwriters Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, brightly provides. Viola De Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow) has it all: beauty, poise, a dowry and a titled suitor. But what she really wants is to act...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: If Movies Be the Food of Love... | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...charge. He doesn't want to act like he's in charge. And that may be the best way to make it to the top. Vice President Al Gore has made perhaps the ultimate sacrifice for his boss, canceling a Thursday pre-2000 primary trip to New Hampshire in order to help out in Washington during the first day of impeachment hearings. Gore came out swinging on Monday in defense of Clinton, urging Congress to keep the President in office. He also blasted House Republicans for abandoning the censure option. The "decision to reject compromise," said Gore, does "not give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gore Blasts Impeachment | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

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