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...evening in late July, I was channel surfing, looking for something sufficiently mindless, when I came across a Charles Bronson film festival. "Chow Down With Chuck!" ordered the WABU 68 announcer, so I did. Ah, the campy violence! The atrocious special effects! The liberal use of the bluescreen! The painfully illogical plot! The script wrought with Dadaist precision! In a fit of foolish idealism, I blurted to my roommate, "You know, we sure have come a long way, at least in terms of action films...

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

Harvard students will now be able to chow down on sandwiches late at night while listening to a wide variety of music, thanks to an innovative sandwich shop which opened last week in the Square...

Author: By Melissa K. Crocker and Matthew P. Miller, S | Title: New Eatery on Mt. Auburn Offers Wraps, Music to Entice Customers | 4/1/1997 | See Source »

Beijing may raise a ruckus against Western countries that take in Zhang and the others, but privately the government may also be relieved. Kenneth Chow, a Hong Kong lawyer on Beijing's handpicked advisory committee, says the dissidents would probably be warned to toe the line. If they don't, "you either arrest them or let them wander about and create damage. You don't want to do either, so the best way is someone else's taking them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESCAPING HONG KONG | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

...ever to join the corps. According to his manager, Bowe has grossed more than $100 million from endorsements, purses and investments. After the champ reports for boot camp on Feb. 10, his take will drop to about $1,200 a month. And he will have to eat Marine Corps chow. That's one way to drop a weight class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 10, 1997 | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...with his upper lip above his mouth.'' In retirement, Jiggs has become an artist--a simian Grandpa Moses--and sales of his paintings are to fund the Cheeta Project, a non-profit foundation that will aid other chimps and keep Jiggs on his daily diet of fruit, Purina Monkey Chow and the occasional Oreo as a treat. Tarzan's tree house was never like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Feb. 10, 1997 | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

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