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...movie's promoters advertise the story as a romantic, fish-out-of-the-water comedy. In 1962, at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, an eccentric scientist Calvin Webber (Christopher Walken) and his expectant wife (Sissy Spacek) decide to enter their fallout shelter for just a week or two. But an airplane crashes into their house above, they mistake its rumbles for a bomb, and they end up staying in the underground lair for 35 years. In 1997, Calvin and his wife decide they need to refuel on supplies and send Adam, their born-in-captivity son (Brendan Fraser...

Author: By Susan Yeh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: FIZZLES out | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...that I have any answers. The challenge is: how do we live with others? After all, human connection is why I think we are here. This new-found radical individualism in me thinks Calvin has it right: can't we all Just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor's Note: Return to Cambridge | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...that I have any answers. The challenge is: how do we live with others? After all, human connection is why I think we are here. This new-found radical individualism in me thinks Calvin has it right: can't we all Just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RETURN TO CAMBRIDGE | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...Pants are Gap Chinos, Banana Republic shirt, Polo Ralph Lauren tie, a Hugo Boss jacket and I think this is an Emporio Armani rain--coat. Socks are Calvin Klein. Underwear is Calvin Klein. And the shoes are Armani. The watch is actually Guess...

Author: By Shara R. Kay and Jonathan S. Paul, S | Title: Don't Be an Asshole | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...blessing or fervid support. The list begins with Darwin, who in The Descent of Man praised his cousin Galton and decreed that genius "tends to be inherited." Other champions included the young Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, Alexander Graham Bell, John Maynard Keynes, Theodore Roosevelt and the usually taciturn Calvin Coolidge, who declared during his vice presidency that "Nordics deteriorate when mixed with other races...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cursed by Eugenics | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

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