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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard (9-1, 7-0 Ivy) simply would not let its Ivy title drive be stopped, whether it was losing seven starters to injury or blowing a 20-point lead to Bucknell. It was, to use a cliche, a team of destiny.

Author: By Bryan Lee, | Title: Team of Destiny | 12/2/1997 | See Source »

The masterpiece of Anastasia is the brilliant "Once Upon a December," which beats anything we have seen in recent Disney efforts. Anastasia is wandering around the old palace, beginning to have flashbacks about her regal past. She begins her solo and the audience settles back in their chairs, expecting a...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lavish Animation, Shallow Characters for Fox's 'Anastasia' | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

The song, "Same Way," on the other hand, has slightly promising lyrics. The words fit with the style of the music, focusing on overcoming difficulties, saying "Get up the same way you went down./ You gotta turn that frown upside down." While the words are still repetitive and riddled with...

Author: By Ruth A. Murray, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mon Cherie Skamour | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

Ally's self-involvement can make the viewer wince because of the writing ("Love and law are the same: romantic in concept, but in practice both can give you a yeast infection") and because she hasn't earned our sympathy--her predicaments often seem so false. It's not a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: WOMAN OF THE YEAR | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

For they are, after all, creations of the filmmaking team--director Danny Boyle, writer John Hodge and producer Andrew Macdonald--who gave us Trainspotting and Shallow Grave and who have yet to make a movie that is less than extraordinary, stylistically speaking. Boyle is a director who has never encountered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: IN A WAY, EXTRAORDINARY | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

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