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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bitter? Maybe...

Author: By Justin R.P. Ingersoll, | Title: Red Sox Win East. Not! | 4/21/1994 | See Source »

Many faculty members were against the core to the bitter...

Author: By Gaston DE Los reyes, | Title: Before Core Classes, Students Took Gen Ed | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

Albright says his experiences in foreign lands do not leave him with a "bitter taste." But instead, they gave him "a better perspective on the inherent risks of traveling...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Kenyan Bandits Chase, Attack First-Year-to-Be | 4/16/1994 | See Source »

...flick is the bounty comparisons it begs. For instance, unlike the fresh pot of coffee you will need to revive yourself when the credits roll, this ill-conceived attempt from director Joel and Ethan Coen tastes more like the four day-old black sludge forgotten on the kitchen counter--bitter, could and best thrown...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: 'The Hudsucker Proxy' Stands in for Real Satire | 4/14/1994 | See Source »

...reason this experience tastes so bitter is that it betrays the real promise with which it beings. "Proxy" comes on strong with great caricature studies of board meetings and fat cat executives in pin stripes. A "Brazil"-esque mythicized urban landscape with the austerity of Orwell's 1984 completes the pretensions of a grand satire on corporate America. But somewhere along the way, the Coens run out of jabs at Wall Street and turn instead to punning silver screen sappy romance. Amy Archer (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who once talked fast and moved like a journalists with a mission, is reduced...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: 'The Hudsucker Proxy' Stands in for Real Satire | 4/14/1994 | See Source »

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