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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...funnier than Steven Wright and much cooler than Penn & Teller," Aronberg said. "I guarantee that everyone who goes to this show will become an instant Jon Stewart...

Author: By Mark W. Brown, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Lines Up Comedian | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

Still, you may luxuriate in the landscapes and in the performances -- by Rupert Graves, Helen Mirren, Giovanni Giudelli and (of course) Helena Bonham Carter -- that subvert caricature. And you are permitted to weep at the film's climax: a last embrace of two not-quite lovers, closest at this instant of separate, mutual despair. It is a sweet, seductive, haunting final shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summoning The Glory Days | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

...freshmen can provide an instant offensive boost, but the question is whether it will be enough...

Author: By Tom W. Grave, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Can the Young Ones Come Through? | 3/4/1992 | See Source »

...Mexico without your own phone? No problem. "Virtual telephone service" to the rescue. Come spring you can get your own number and confidential voice mailbox and, by calling from any public phone, retrieve messages left by other callers. The Trilogue system, patented by Comverse Technology of Woodbury, N.Y., provides instant hookup in areas where expensive phone installation may take months, even years. "I call it entry-level service," says Comverse spokesman Paul Baker. "We're bringing the modern telephone to the grass roots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telecommunications: Entry-Level Phone Service | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

...will Myers, the Toronto native and Second City comedy alum who created the character and co-wrote the film, become the George Lucas of the '90s? Don't ask just now; the instant star is "having an out-of-body experience" relishing approval of a character he has played for more than 10 years. But he is modest about his achievement: "We just wrote something we thought was funny," he says, "and hoped the universe would accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Party On, Wayne -- From TV to Movies | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

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