Word: fours
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Four days after the term bill increase referendum failed, leaving next year's Undergraduate Council still strapped for funds, representatives argued last night over whether they should devote their limited resources to planning a blockbuster Springfest or to building a nest egg for student groups...
...four-wheel-drive, five-cylinder turbodiesel Benzes cost about $5 million, or $80,000 apiece. The new interim fast-attack vehicle (obviously a name chosen by the Corps, not the manufacturer) comes in military green, with a canvas top, and has six seats - two more than the jeep. While it may lack the fancy seats and stereos sold to civilians, the IFAV does sport mounts for assorted machine guns and grenade launchers, as well as a snorkel that will keep air flowing to the engine in 30-inch-deep water...
Although he too took all the recommended shots and vaccines, about four weeks into his six-week trip, Hughes had lost 15 pounds and was feeling...
...Fyodor Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov, seems almost chosen at random from the list of novels that it references. The basic plot of Dostoevsky's famous meditation on being and nothingness (long before Sartre took the patent out on those themes) serves as the starting point of the Durang/Innaurato collaboration: four brothers, tempestuous love, life, death, etc, etc. But it doesn't take long to leave Dostoevsky in the dust as Durang and Innaurato jump full force into the whole of literature since the Book of Genesis. Durang has always been something of the Tom Stoppard of absurdist drama...
...emotion, not science, drives Bicentennial Man. The film's heart is Andrew's relationship with four generations of the Martin family, particularly Little Miss and her granddaughter (also played by Davidtz). This story manages to be heartwarming and engaging, as does Andrew's struggle to find his identity. But all of these emotions partially paint over the plot's more intriguing implications. By the second half of the film, when Asimov's grander concepts begin to emerge, Kazan and Columbus too often choose obvious tearjerking over any true exploration. The film's vision of the future is drawn in similar...