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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...phenomena, his scatological dreams, his fantasies of incontinence and impotence all reflect his growing loss of physical control. His physical disintegration makes all the more real the imminence of death and of obliteration. Watching with wonder the futile efforts of his energetic wife and his former business partners at garden-keeping and money-making respectively, he feels keenly his own life's ineffectuality and transience. "What is wrong with me that I want to leave a trace...?" he demands. Writing, he hopes, will save him, will keep him in the memory of those who follow. But what...

Author: By Adriane N. Giebel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Death, Decay, Decline | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

...want available elsewhere at next to nothing. Manufacturers don't like the clubs either, because they stock a limited number of items at very low margins. Toys "R" Us, on the other hand, might stock everything Mattel makes. Admits Costco CEO James Sinegal: "You could fill Madison Square Garden with the people who don't want to sell to us." Industry watchers say the FTC may be sending a message to other retailers whose market power exceeds their market share. "It's a warning shot across the bow," says Isaac Lagnado, president of Tactical Retail Solutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOUGH GUYS IN THE TOY DEPT. | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

Holland, whose previous credits include the German drama Europa, Europa and the kiddie-pleaser The Secret Garden, was smart to choose a tight, simple story that allows for a few idiosyncratic touches but matches more closely with her essential narrative conservatism. Recently guilty of filling her films with too many climaxes, the director shows considerable discipline in building the tension between her characters until the drama reaches a critical mass...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Heiress Comes Into Her Own | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

Most famous for Europa, Europa, an almost-unclassifiable German historical drama-cum-comic-childhood-memoir, Holland has also directed films ranging from Olivier, Olivier, a French psychological thriller, to Fever, a pro-revolutionary Polish drama, and even found time for the 1994 English-language children's movie The Secret Garden...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ms. Holland Goes 19th C | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

Acklin said he was walking down Garden Street near Byerly Hall when he heard a car screech and saw the suspect in the street, about five feet in front...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Senior Twice Nabs Theft Suspect | 10/8/1997 | See Source »

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