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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...excruciating performance to get the picture. With most kinds of video porn, a few minutes is enough. While the President's mood sometimes changes--humble, combative, pedantic, stammering--the eerie climate of the room remains pretty much the same. A cornered, equivocating man is questioned forever by clinical, off-camera voices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover That Keyhole | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

Harvard police are still investigating a burglary that left four Adams House residents without a laptop, a camera, a pocketbook and a wallet early Sunday morning...

Author: By Radu Ban, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Adams House Burglar Nabs Laptop, Camera | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

...version is the elimination of the credits and the overlaid soundtrack from the famous opening shot. The brilliant oscillation between the simple continuity of a single shot and the complexity of the choreography creates a sense of tension now unburdened by surface distractions. Without the studio veneer, the probing camera and the cacophonic textures of street noise achieve a phenomenal depth that truly captures the oddly discontinuous sensation of shifting through space...

Author: By Jen S. Wu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bye Mancini, Hello Mariachi | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

...lines about what it's like to be the arthropodic equivalent of Adam and Eve, Z and Princes Bala (voiced by Sharon Stone) get captured in a giant dewdrop and spend more time than is interesting interred in gum on the bottom of some kid's shoe (allowing unusual camera angles that will really excite the graphics techies.) These shots are "cool," but do make it seem like an Imax documentary on the "lives of an ant" has been artlessly spliced into a generic Disney "plebian saves princess" cartoon...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Diversity of Disney: Anxiety, Allen and Tale of Ants | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

...could add, "Given that this is a horror film, I really would like to see mild violence and uncreative forms of slaughter." I'll tell you, although you know them already: there's a drive-by hanging, an in-bed strangulation, an over-the-radio death chase. The camera makes the requisite turns around corners, blood flies freely, but your adrenalin will get pumping only if you are an undemanding horror...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No 'Legend' This Fall Season: Bland and Brainless | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

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