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Mouse on Mars pulls off this complexity with an uncanny musicality. They aren't just standing behind synthesizers pushing buttons, but use electronics as bona fide instruments, not toys. The band is definitely at the wheel here-no computerized autopilot makes this album groove...

Author: By John T. Reuland, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mouse On Mars Brings Musical Sophistication to Techno | 10/3/1997 | See Source »

...viewers, despite the "premiere" labeling.) "Fast Driver" parodies "Speed Racer" with results hysterical even for those unfamiliar with the original show's idiotic plotting, redundant dialogue and silly visual effects (here, the usual overhead view of a speedway's race line-up before start includes eight or nine bona fide cars, an airplane and an enormous spermatozoa). "Fast Driver" covers the anime-parody territory far better than "Booby Trap...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sick and Twisted | 9/19/1997 | See Source »

...hype seems to be working: moviegoers are flocking in droves to see "Men in Black," and the film seems guaranteed to roll to bona fide blockbuster status. The audences could do worse: "MiB" offers quite a few laughs and a brand of screwball entertainment well off the beaten track of most summer fare. That said, it's not as good as you'd expect from the whoopee that critics are making over it. It's fairly funny--and not much else...

Author: By Lynn Y. Lee, | Title: KING ALIEN BOOTY | 7/11/1997 | See Source »

...referendum in which California residents barred the state from "grant[ing] preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethinicity or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting," with the exception of jobs that have "bona fide" sex-based qualifications...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Diversity in the Courts | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...owns the rights to millions of dollars in gold ore lying somewhere beneath it. Ore that President Clinton vowed publicly would never be mined. But about which he may have spoken too soon. For Margaret Reeb is not simply the eccentric heroine in her own romantic western. A bona-fide scion of the mining heroes she celebrates, she has the financial leverage to throw a shudder into the massive federal machinery she believes would grind up their dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIVINGSTON, MONTANA: NOBODY ASKED HER | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

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