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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crime nearly as heinous as the actual practice of slavery. Spielberg does show us this, but very matter-of-factly, with nowhere near the emotional charge or passion with which he depicts the whites' treatment of the slaves. For the latter, he calls forth tempestuous lightning storms for back-drop, while he shows us shot after shot of pained, anguished, screaming faces in fast montage, while the former is simply and briefly shown with ordinary straight-on camera work. While he graphically lays bare the folly, political entanglements and carnage of the American Civil War which followed close...

Author: By Jonathan B. Dinerstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Long, Soggy, Overwrought 'Amistad' Plays Heavily on White liberal Guilt | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...actually come to the decision to drop...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Matt Damon On Life, Acting and Harvard | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...good idea," said Ron Rosenman '98, a computer-science concentrator. "Students won't have to drop $4,000 for a computer...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Oracle Corporation CEO Speaks to Students | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

Like jaded cynicism applied to every-thing in the world 24-7, though, such meta-ness isn't really sustainable for long without wearing thin: expectations grow higher and higher, we're the rats at the cocaine drop bottle with the tap key, etc. Scream 2 can't go much beyond its first virtuoso scene, in which a woman is stabbed by a movie's fan(atic) in a movie theater raucous over the violence on the screen. We ourselves in the theater feel real fear that the same could happen...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Scream 2' Goes One Step More Meta, But We're Reaching Saturation | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...team definitely has great chemistry," Basil said. "Everyone is healthy and ready to go. But what is really nice to know is that it doesn't matter who is starting from day to day because there is no drop-off from the starters to the reserves...

Author: By Joseph E. Mattson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Basketball Squares Off Against Rams | 12/10/1997 | See Source »

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