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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dead, white male," Mansfield said. "My wife was 'Big Government.' She wore a stuffed red costume and carried bacon which symbolized pork...

Author: By Janet C. Change, | Title: Officials 'Treat' With Candy | 11/1/1994 | See Source »

Shoving off, they encounter a suspiciously charming fellow named Wade (Kevin Bacon) and his suspiciously charmless pal, Terry (John C. Reilly), also eager to shoot a few rapids. Wade is flirtatious with Gail, self-consciously chummy with Roarke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Supermom Shoots the Rapids | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

...passage through the Gauntlet is a skillful blend of stunt and special- effects work, nicely orchestrated by the director, Curtis Hanson. He is less skillful at building suspense around the campsites, possibly because the screenplay is not very tightly or eccentrically wound, possibly because Bacon takes his best line too literally. "I am a nice guy," he says at one point. "I'm just a different kind of nice guy." As a result, Bacon doesn't hone Wade's menace as sharply as he might. He needs to become more erratic, more dangerous, as they paddle farther and farther from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Supermom Shoots the Rapids | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

...working the polls feasted on a spread set across one entire side of the Georgian Ballmom. They ate grilled Cajun chicken breast in a cream sauce, beef and vegetable kabobs and rumaki--which consists of a piece of chicken liver and a slice of a water chestnut, wrapped in bacon. Snickers had the opportunity to give on blue, red, and yellow tortilla chips, gus-camole, black bees sales, tomato sales, cheese, crackers, vegetables and dips...

Author: By Compiled JEFFREY N.s. gell, | Title: Better Than a Party At the Currier 10-Man | 9/21/1994 | See Source »

...middle of a parking lot, the junior high girls lay on the asphalt while the seniors douse them with mustard, ketchup and flour. They have to mockingly propose to some of the geeky senior men and suck on pacifiers while they're being tortured. With lines like "fry like bacon you freshman piggies," "since you little prick-teases can't follow instructions..." and the command of "AIR RAID!!!!!" the film's hilarity will become a part of your everyday conversation. I guess that's the biggest compliment to a film, if you remember it well enough to repeat...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Brattle Presents Old and New Classics | 8/12/1994 | See Source »

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