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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...position as the characters. They cause us to remember lines that are especially witty or poignant. And sometimes, they add to our understanding of the subject matter they address. After leaving Titanic, my only thought was how Cameron made a computer-generated image look so much like a real iceberg...

Author: By Alex Carter, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/18/1998 | See Source »

With thousands of embryos retrieved and frozen in fertility clinics across the U.S., this could be the tip of an obstetrical iceberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ice Babies: Long-lost frozen embryos are popping up all over | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

Around Washington, those in awe of the President's resilience say that if Bill Clinton were the Titanic, the iceberg would have gone down. On Thursday night, he lived out that metaphor when he was host to Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair at a formal dinner in the East Room. Like a brightly lit ocean liner on a dark sea, the White House floated above the scandal for five hours, as 240 guests clinked glasses and basked in the glow of being rich, of being powerful, of being there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Magic Bubble | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

...Cambridge-linked statuettes. But as we look ahead to Oscar night 1999, as marvelously romantic as "Titanic" and "Good Will Hunting" are, an even greater movie would be a realistic one, a picture set in the days that may come when our luxurious economy strikes the economic iceberg, when first-class and steerage mix, and Harvard student Oliver Barrett iv washes dishes at Kiley's on 'D' and Old Colony in Southie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hunting for Cambridge | 2/12/1998 | See Source »

...potential Quad improvements go, these are just the tip of the iceberg--other possibilities include a student-run Contented Workers Table Grape Plantation (complete witk big-screen TVs and roving masseuses in the fields) and a Quad militia, charged with the armed takeover and subjugation of Lesley College. I'm sure that there many other ways for the Quad to be improved which I haven't thought of yet. When I do, the students of Harvard University will be the first to know--just as soon as I get out of this bathrobe...

Author: By David S. Farenthold, | Title: A Few Immodest Proposals | 1/29/1998 | See Source »

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