Word: classics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JOSE, Calif.--When crunch time came for the Harvard men's basketball team at the Cable Car Classic, the Crimson looked to its perimeter players to make the plays down the stretch...
...quite an instant classic in a league with "It depends on what your definition of is is," but it had promise as hairsplitting of a high order. For one thing, no one had charged that Monica Lewinsky was hit upon against her will, as Livingston implied. And the Livingston rationale ignored his good fortune in having Larry Flynt, not Ken Starr, with his subpoenas and a grand jury, pursuing him. Thus Livingston could cling to the claim that in a sting operation run by a desperate prosecutor, he was the kind of guy who would have come clean...
...December, this must be The Nutcracker. With Christmas just days away, hardly a dancer in America isn't appearing in a production of the best loved of all classic ballets. But the Nutcracker being presented through this weekend by the Cleveland School of the Arts, a public magnet school whose 658 students come from some of the city's poorest neighborhoods, bears little resemblance to the traditional versions that fill most theaters at this time of year. Tchaikovsky's romantic score has been replaced by the blunt, insistent boom of a drummer pounding out rhythms on a plastic bucket. Marie...
...Although its library is inferior to that of Turner Classic Movies, amc is more fun to watch. Here you see the unfamiliar Jeff Chandler or Virginia Mayo films that are often deliciously bad but can be crudely fascinating and say much about the times in which they were made. All this, and George Clooney's dad Nick as a host...
...BEETLE Messing with a classic is dangerous, so when VW reintroduced the Beetle, it sprayed on the style with a fire hose. The Volks-folks managed to make the car whimsical but not silly, ingenious but not too cutesy, sexy and sporty at the same time. Just as the old VW Bug inspires aging boomers to memories of more carefree days, the new Beetle suggests glad times ahead. Nothing--fenders, headlights, fuel tank--interrupts the curves of this happy hemisphere of color...