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The special effects accentuated the dramatic content of many scenes. Specifically, the lightning and thunder effects during one of the closing scenes superbly conveyed the sense of impending doom. The storm also represented a turning point in Bosola's attitude toward his behavior--he realizes that even mercenaries like himself...

Author: By P. GREGORY Maravilla, | Title: Sadism and Flying Refrigerators | 4/11/1991 | See Source »

An inebriated WHRB staffer wandered into The Crimson late on the night before the story ran that pegged Rudenstine as the search committee's nominee. "We scooped you!" he boasted, referring not to the impending presidential pick, but to the radio station's early report of the announcement that Vice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporters' Notebook Extra | 4/5/1991 | See Source »

On the surface, this investigation may seem like just another routine check for the University. Yet the impending probe could have damaging consequences if Harvard's indirect cost accounting looks anything like the records now surfacing at Stanford.

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: Coming Down on the Medical School | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

Consider the evidence. Zondervan, a leading U.S. publisher of Fundamentalist and Evangelical literature, has issued an updated version of John F. Walvoord's 1974 best seller, Armageddon, Oil and the Middle East Crisis, with an initial print order of -- get this -- 1 million copies. (Nine were reportedly ordered by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Apocalypse Now? | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

All that has changed. Crimes nationwide rose 32% in 1989 and an additional 13% last year; the sharpest jump was in grave crimes like murder, aggravated assault and rape, which increased 44% in January. Freed by glasnost to report such unpleasant facts, Soviet television and newspapers have turned graphic tales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder And Mayhem | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

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