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After heavy rain gave Cornell an extra day in Cambridge, an outmatched Big Red hung around like last week's bubble gum before the Crimson pulled the plug with nine minutes remaining in a 2-1 win at Ohiri Field Sunday afternoon. CORNELL 1 HARVARD...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kelly, Hench Goals Power Men's Soccer Past Cornell | 10/13/1998 | See Source »

...That's my gum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 12, 1998 | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...Lolita, Dominique Swain is a little too pouty; she chews gum and candy so perpetually and is so addicted to comic books that her character becomes rather tiresome. Similarly, Melanie Griffith, in the role of Dolores Haze, is so flaky that we are bored of her presence all too soon. Neither is a particularly likeable character, although this seems to have been a calculated move on Lyne's part. The effect of this is to turn our sympathies to Humbert, played perfectly by Jeremy Irons, whose expressive face beautifully conveys his longings and inner torment. Reserved and elegant, Irons' character...

Author: By Irene J. Hahn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Film About Film: Lyne's 'Lolita' Opens | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

After all the winners had been announced, thefour Nobel laureates auctioned off personal itemssuch as chewed bubble gum, supermarket shoppinglists and junk mail. Glashow's cigar butts fetchedthe highest...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ig Nobels Awarded In Zany Ceremony | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...uncolonized wilderness is short shifted. Rather than saying some key lines about what it's like to be the arthropodic equivalent of Adam and Eve, Z and Princes Bala (voiced by Sharon Stone) get captured in a giant dewdrop and spend more time than is interesting interred in gum on the bottom of some kid's shoe (allowing unusual camera angles that will really excite the graphics techies.) These shots are "cool," but do make it seem like an Imax documentary on the "lives of an ant" has been artlessly spliced into a generic Disney "plebian saves princess" cartoon...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Diversity of Disney: Anxiety, Allen and Tale of Ants | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

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