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This film isn't totally without redemption, though--the soundtrack is one of the rare bright spots. Adding groups such as Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Soul Asylum and Toad the Wet Sprocket was the movie's only stroke of genius. Obviously it was meant to attract a group of money-spending teenagers, even though the smartest of them will spend their money on the soundtrack and stay away from the theater...

Author: By Christopher J. Hernandez, | Title: Shallow Plot, Disconnected Characters Sink 'Axe Murderer' | 7/30/1993 | See Source »

...homogenizing vat of that mysterious entity called Europe. Chauvinists like the immigrant baiter Jean-Marie Le Pen say the greater threat comes from African Arabs and blacks who have had the inestimable privilege of settling in France but refuse to accept its folkways. Meanwhile, with Marx in the dustbin of history, leftists have no prophet, right-wingers no archfoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New France | 7/22/1991 | See Source »

...many new student publications at Harvard, publish, then perish is the rule. Faced with rising costs and diminishing sources of income, most campus journals appear only a few times before bankruptcy sweeps them into the dustbin of history--or, in this case, into coffins tucked away in the Harvard Archives...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Maintaining a Healthy Perspective | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

...numbers in mind, then, the Brandeis Holocaust display and penny drive misses the mark. Why are Jewish lives more important than the lives of other Holocaust victims? Why should Jews alone be remembered by the Brandeis memorial while the other nameless, faceless victims are relegated to the numerical dustbin of history...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: Five Million Too Few | 3/1/1990 | See Source »

...murder us!" the crowd chanted. They also chanted such slogans as "write truthfully," "free unions" and "Jakes to the dustbin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Czechoslovak Marchers Protest Violence | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

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