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...finally you go for as much ancillary business as seems apt. There will be hundreds of Godzilla spin-offs. But for Private Ryan, DreamWorks canceled a G.I. Joe action figure modeled on Hanks. Maybe the muscles were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Aieee! It's Summer!! | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...Simpson's infamous life-style serves as an apt metaphor for the overindulgent '80s and '90s, Biskind's book delivers what's known in screenwriting jargon as the backstory--the preamble sparked when Bonnie and Clyde and Easy Rider caught fire. Those avant-garde youth movies emboldened a whole new pack of hip filmmakers to make their own iconoclastic films during the '70s: M*A*S*H, Taxi Driver, Five Easy Pieces and Paper Moon, among others. Biskind's history lesson also has its fair share of tantalizing dope and sex lore--at times the horrible stories from former spouses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lost Picture Show | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...though, Dartboard remains unconvinced that all the planning and elaborate scheming that went into it made a significant difference in the quality of life conditions for next year. In a place like Harvard where people are apt to micromanage their every option, perhaps the lottery provides one more extracurricular lesson in the value of the vagaries of chance...

Author: By Kathryn R. Markham, | Title: PLAYING THE HOUSING LOTTERY | 4/24/1998 | See Source »

This smoky lounge provides an atmosphere reminiscent of an era long gone by. Savor your Macanudo in the upstairs parlor overlooking the rest of the shop. An apt place to muse over Hemingway and O'Neill, its hospitable environment also fosters study breaks for the chessmaster as well as cigar aficionado...

Author: By Sara Reistad-long, | Title: good day sunshine | 4/23/1998 | See Source »

Given the recent debate over the future of Harvard's sister institution, it seems an apt time to reflect on that all-important Radcliffe institution: the Radcliffe T-shirt...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Zuckerman, | Title: DO WE STILL GET THE SHIRTS? | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

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