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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very clear that villains must be repulsively ugly). Moreover, he seems to have absolutely no motivation for his curses. He constantly howls "The Romanovs must be destroyed!" but there seems to be no cause for his interference. Every time he jumps on the scene with his side-kick bat Bartok (Iago with a Southern accent), the movie severely lags. Why should kids fear someone who's more pitiful than scary...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lavish Animation, Shallow Characters for Fox's 'Anastasia' | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

...Harvard men's basketball teams opens its 1997-98 regular season campaign tonight against the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, and the Wildcat squad seems well suited to challenge the Crimson right off the bat...

Author: By Keith S. Greenawalt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Cagers Begin Season With Big Test--Literally | 11/19/1997 | See Source »

...Dogs Go to Heaven), this fanciful story about the lost princess of the Romanovs has all the elements for a cartoon hit: a girl-becomes-a-woman plot; a chipper, Alan Menkenish score by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Once on This Island, Ragtime); and a cute, chatty bat. Close your ears to the Fox fanfare in the opening moments, and you can mistake it for a Disney film. Which is exactly what Fox hopes parents will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THERE'S TUMULT IN TOON TOWN | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...discarded, beside the organ bench, his bag slumped in one of the empty pews of Appleton Chapel, the cozy inner sanctum of Memorial Church. Playing the organ, Danny Forger '99 is hidden behind a bank of silver pipes that range from the size of a pencil to a baseball bat...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Organists Are Just Normal People | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...Shaka Zulu. Moreover, Shaka's life was oddly parallel with that of Macbeth: a diviner prophesied in his youth that Shaka would become a "chief of chiefs," and his wife, Pampata, was his ablest and most ambitious war counselor. Thus was born uMabatha, the story of Mabatha (pronounced "Mah-bat-ta"): an amalgam of Shaka and Macbeth...

Author: By Susannah R. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spectacle Trumps Speech in `Umabatha' | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

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