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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rutgers-Camden's last win came in 1992, so the Pioneers had plenty more time to catch up to Columbia. And can you imagine the headlines and the reactions when they finally broke that streak? All major media outlets would mention it; Rutgers-Camden had a cult following, just like the Columbia football team...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Going Out As Losers | 2/29/1996 | See Source »

...graphomania. Wallace is definitely out to show his stuff, a virtuoso display of styles and themes reminiscent of William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon and William Gaddis. Like those writers, Wallace can play it high or low, a sort of Beavis-and-Egghead approach that should spell cult following at the nation's brainier colleges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAD MAXIMALISM | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

...aquarium. All are genetic experiments, and Krank has been aging prematurely because he is unable to dream. His solution is to set up an H.G. Wellesesque laboratory where he can try to extract the dreams of young children, unfortunately without success. Krank's henchmen are the fanatic Cyclops cult, an army of blind men, whose sight and hearing are enhanced by Krank's electronic inventions. A little boy, Denree (Joseph Lucien, who has the biggest eyes and oral fixation of any young actor in a surrealist movie in recent memory), is one of the children kidnapped, and his adopted older...

Author: By Dan Williams, | Title: City of Lost Children Offers a Feast of Surreal Treats for the Eyes | 2/1/1996 | See Source »

...redemption of a more painful sort awaits Essie's son Clark, who is lured from booze and drugs into the bunkers of a Colorado religious cult. On first seeing this ramshackle structure, he thinks "this would go up like bales of hay if it ever started to burn." Sure enough, in a sequence closely modeled on the 1993 Branch Davidian standoff and tragedy in Waco, Texas, the torches arrive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: WE LOST IT AT THE MOVIES | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

...mortality," he recalls. In Athens as a teenager, he was host on a show on Armed Forces Radio before returning to the States and attending the University of Arizona. He worked for the deadly B-movie studio Empire Pictures, flunked a veejay audition at mtv, then became a cult fave by making sly mock of Geraldo, Ricki and the rest of the wackpack on Talk Soup. He's been at Later for almost two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HOST MAN'S BURDEN | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

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