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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...break by Henry Higdon and Craig Adams was the first spoiled chance as Cornell senior Steve Wilson, showing why he is an All-ECAC defenseman, dove from behind Higdon to poke the puck out of danger...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Cornell Tops M. Hockey; Season Ends | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

Whites, who appear to be leftovers from McMurtry's Pulitzer-prizewinning novel, Lonesome Dove, are no less crude. The local Beck clan is ruled by an ancient maniac named White Sut, who keeps a sow bear on a chain and beats the animal daily with a fence post. One day the bear breaks the chain, pulls off White Sut's head, and leaves it in the middle of the main road. This is widely regarded as a good joke. So is a courtroom altercation (12 dead, including the judge) in which Zeke tries earnestly to kill another lowbrow Beck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: WILD WARRIORS | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...much social criticism in New York Dada, though some of its members were clearly ticked off by the conservative character of the American art world. Picabia even satirized Alfred Stieglitz--whose 291 gallery was the main rallying point for modernist artists like Constantin Brancusi, Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove and Marsden Hartley--as an impotent figure, a camera with a collapsed bellows. Dove himself had a prod at the reviewing establishment in The Critic, 1925--a figure meant to represent Royal Cortissoz, the much feared conservative who had dubbed modernism "Ellis Island art." It is a paper doll cut from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: DAYS OF ANTIC WEIRDNESS | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

Although the Big Green spent the remainder of the period in its offensive zone, the Crimson kept the game tied. Harvard players, on the defensive, dove to the ice repeatedly to break up Dartmouth's passes and shot attempts, taking the game into overtime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Nips Big Green, Falls to Vermont | 1/6/1997 | See Source »

Lovett thinks it's high time Hollywood dove on in. Geek-laden companies such as Pixar, Industrial Light & Magic and Digital Domain (effects houses for Toy Story, Jurassic Park and Terminator II, respectively) have been turning digital technology into blockbuster grosses for years. And more recently, as Websites flacking for the likes of 101 Dalmatians and ID4 score multimillion "hit counts," the studios have come to value the Internet's impressive promotional clout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD GETS WIRED | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

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