Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crowded and emotional two-hour proceeding, Steven T. Driscoll received a five-year jail sentence and five years of probation for striking Sarah T. Craig 99 and three other undergraduates as they walked along a dark Norfolk, Conn. road. Craig died after sustaining a brief coma...
...ducktail, to which the WB logo has been affixed) and Disney-dissing (when Daffy suggests that the good guys? squad should be called The Ducks, Bugs ripostes, "What kind of a Mickey Mouse organization would name their team The Ducks?"). Bill Murray is on hand for a brief master display of slapdash comedy. But "Space Jam, directed by Joe Pytka, is mainly about the wonder, the grace, the supernal niceness of its live-action star," notes TIME's Richard Corliss. "The film could have been a gleaming showcase for cartoon wit. Instead it's an 87-minute commercial peddling sainthood...
...that it no longer means sex. Once the press and the candidates realized that harping on sexual indiscretions ran the risk of Mutual Assured Destruction, the character issue was reduced to the impossible--and tedious--task of weighing one man's soul against another's. There was a brief respite provided by Dick Morris, whose idea of triangulating involved toes. But otherwise, nothing. Sex may finally be out until someone can show a connection between a model sex life--Nixon, Carter--and a successful presidency...
Sophomore forward Craig Adams responded to provocation by a Colgate player with a brief post-game scuffle...
...avoid delays in the future, Steen said Harvard is looking to companies like Microsoft and Netscape that are developing e-mail programs that only make brief connections to the system...