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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...force portrait of character disintegration, meticulously detailed and utterly convincing. A clearer sense of who Parker was before he fell apart might have made Chicago Loop a clearer, more uplifting admonitory tale; the scariest possibility is that the anti-hero was no one at all until he found his fate, and his destination, through violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spring Bouquet of Fiction | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

Today you finally found out your fate. Are you one of the lucky winners...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Is This Your Lucky Day? | 3/21/1991 | See Source »

...United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt, Israel and Turkey. Saudi Arabia alone would get a $10 billion wish list that includes 25 F-15 fighters, 36 Apache attack helicopters, 2,400 Maverick missiles and 235 M1A1 tanks. For American defense contractors, these sales promise an escape from the gloomy fate spelled out in the budget package adopted by Congress last fall, in which U.S. defense spending is slated to shrink 25% over the next five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armaments Choose Your Weapons | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

...movie seems enshrouded by fate, so are its characters. Jinshan (Li Wei) runs a dye factory in northwestern China in the 1920s. This vile old man has taken a young wife, Ju Dou (Gong Li), who is made a slave to his viciousness. In bed he gags and harnesses her and rides her like a donkey, and the night bleeds with her shrieks. But the degradations stir Ju Dou's willfulness and sensuality. Now she undresses before the avid eyes of Tianqing (Li Baotian), her husband's adopted son. By abandoning herself to him, she hopes to liberate the captive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tainted Love by the Dye Vat | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

...housing issue is just the tip of the iceberg. Now, while the Committee on House Life is still discussing the fate of Lehman Hall, reform on issues facing transfer students must be addressed...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: With Dudley House on its Way Out... | 3/12/1991 | See Source »

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