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Araki shot the movie on location, with no permits and a minimal crew. The gritty starkness of the scenes gives the movie a sincere, authentic feel. When the six friends go out to a nightclub, Araki uses the dim, reddish lights, loud generic music and their encounter with two guys in drag to convey the raw alienation of the kids...

Author: By Roland Tan, | Title: F***ED UP | 1/20/1995 | See Source »

...council apply for grants from the College. Let it be renamed "Harvard-Radcliffe Generic Government Simulation Game." And let its members be praised for what they really are instead of condemned for what they want...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Change The Council | 12/17/1994 | See Source »

...grateful for my family. I am grateful for the opportunity to go to Harvard. But every year we say that in such generic terms that it sounds like we don't even believe it anymore...

Author: By Nancy RAINE Reyes, | Title: Giving Thanks to Music | 11/30/1994 | See Source »

...strangers they had briefly met, and hardly got to know, but who would now be running Congress. These strangers rode to victory on a shoeshine and a smile and a sample case full of miracle cures. They gave few specifics, but never mind. Voters were convinced that their generic bromides looked better than what the Democrats . had been peddling. Of those who uprooted hardy Democratic perennials, few were more unlikely than Texas Congressman-elect Steve Stockman and Tennessee Senator-elect Bill Frist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ELECTION: A Pair of Giant Killers | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) disagreed. In a three-page ruling. Associate Justice Neil L. Lynch '52 concluded that "the term 'federal penitentiary' is used in its generic sense...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Walsh to be Jailed; End of an Era | 11/19/1994 | See Source »

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