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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whether one is reading over Parody in The Simpsons: Animating the Audience through Comedy and Critique or No Next Year: Brooklyn and the Dodgers It Can't Forget, it is refreshing to know that there are exceptions to convoluted representations of fractals and statistical number-crunching so often found in senior theses. Even if not a single academic curiosity is piqued by Don't Spit in the Soup We All Have to Eat: a History of the Dudley Cooperative House, at least the dust mites will become storehouses of esoteric facts and sexual innuendo...

Author: By Eloise D. Austin, | Title: JUMPING THROUGH HOOPES | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

...Holy Man," a critically panned comedy about a televangelist, grossed $5.2 million this past weekend for one of the worst debuts in Eddie Murphy's up-and-down career. It even did worse than two previous Murphy duds: "A Vampire in Brooklyn" ($7 million in 1995) and "Metro" ($11.4 million in 1997). The film's lackluster opening was even more surprising given Eddie's recent success with "Dr. Dolittle," which has grossed $142.2 million since June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eddie Murphy Flounders | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...Nelson Mandela deserved every honor and every "special arrangement" Harvard needed to muster for him. LEE A. DANIELS '71 Brooklyn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mandela Deserves Degree | 10/6/1998 | See Source »

...appreciate a speaker who is honest about how he feels, no matter how other people may criticize what he says", said Troy G. Clair, a high school senior visiting from Brooklyn...

Author: By Caille M. Millner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bond Addresses Racial Injustice | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...more to jazz than just a catchy beat. There were whole new chords and phrases and key changes--and moods--that the rag writers hadn't even touched yet. From 1919 to 1924 these would virtually serve as Gershwin's private playground and personal gold mine, from which the Brooklyn-born son of immigrants proceeded to extract all kinds of music, including, in one glittering shovelful, not just his famous Rhapsody but also a related song called The Man I Love. This would beget almost instantly a new kind of American song, exemplified by Porter's Night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Setting the Standards | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

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