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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jokes are subtler. One of them caps off ahilarious comic sequence involving a fewquasi-crooked FBI agents; the joke so cleverlyplanned that it seems to have ended before thefinal superb surprise. The final in joke includesCrystal's "consigliglieri" speech--a parody of the"I will not seek vengeance" bit in The Godfather.While several sections of that scene are veryenjoyable, their effect is marred by the film'sweak, predictable climax...

Author: By John W. Baxindine, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Analyze This Movie | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...could also be a teensy bit less condescending. Although us canines are cute-I resemble an Ewok-we've got something between the floppy ears. At 48 in dog years, I've been around the block (too many times, my owner thinks) and if given the chance, I'd have a thing or two to say about post-modernism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTBOARD | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...order to shut these teams down," Storey said, "we have to slow them down a little bit physically. Vermont has some fast players [and] we need to take the body and control the tempo of the game...

Author: By Jodie L. Pearl, | Title: Grapplers Head West To Easterns | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...While Harvard Faculty have always been asked to pull their weight on the University's various committees, some say they've been asked to pull just a little bit harder in recent years...

Author: By Jason M. Goins and Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Over-'Committeed' & Under Pressure: Harvard's Faculty Churns out Policy One Meeting at a Time | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

...Nirvana is for Gen X-ers; Cardigans is for Gen Y-ers, etc. In any case, I was happily skimming the columns, wondering what cliched label Business Week would slap on me, when I realized that I was a cultural nonentity according to the magazine--just a bit of flotsam in this generational alphabet soup...

Author: By Terry E. E. chang, | Title: Play it again, Sam | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

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