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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Restrain yourself from going out and buying a Dodge Caravan after watching this movie; many of its scenes play like a Chrysler commercial (although Nissan also gets some exposure). The use of the familiar minivan as an instrument of terrorism turns out to be the most clever gag of the entire movie: nobody can find the infamous Jackal because he's driving the ubiquitous Caravan. Dodge Caravan: driven by soccer moms and international terrorists the world over...

Author: By Scott E. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Stupidity, Sexism Plague a Lifeless 'Jackal' | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...other big ones out there, wasn't exactly prepared for the IE 4-spurred traffic boost. Those Microsoft robots were downloading so much stuff for so many users that our computers ended up working overtime. It was like one of those hamburger places on the interstate when a caravan of tour buses pulls up in the middle of the night. Luckily, in the digital age, we never run out of fries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BILL GATES' GIFT TO THE WEB | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

AWARDED. To the parents of SERGIO JIMENEZ II, the six-year-old boy who died in 1994 after being thrown from a Dodge Caravan with a defective rear latch: $262.5 million in damages; in Charleston, S.C. Chrysler Corp. plans to appeal the judgment, reportedly the largest rendered against a U.S. automaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 20, 1997 | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

...brochures for the minivans are bogus at first glance. Here is a Windstar--or is it a Previa? a Caravan?--parked in the circular drive of an Alpine castle, glistening after a spring shower. The image is idiotic: American marketing at its most cynical. But Husband lingers over the sport-utility brochures. The pages are heavy and slick, almost sensuous, like the leaves of some edible exotic plant. And the pictures! They are familiar to him from the thousands of commercials he saw during the N.B.A. finals. The Jeep Cherokee roars up the perilous incline of a desert mountain. Fearlessly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ME TARZAN, YOU MINIVAN | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

...produced elegant wallpaper designs. More than 40 years ago, after a boyhood spent in a small Kansas town, I took this trip, and I was not surprised to find that America had a warm heart and lots of common sense. It is still true today, and your Highway 50 caravan proves it. CLYDE HOSTETTER San Luis Obispo, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 28, 1997 | 7/28/1997 | See Source »

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