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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...filled with the standard interminable terminating, this movie, which opens this weekend, shows us a kinder, gentler, more androgynous side of Arnold Schwarzenegger. The central joke of the movie is the he-man's pregnancy. Silly? Maybe, butTIME film critic Richard Schickelcalls it a "high energy farce" which "won't make you a better person, but it might, very briefly, make you a happier one."Post your opinion on theArts & Culturebulletin board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES . . .JUNIOR: | 11/23/1994 | See Source »

...consecutive 3-7 seasons followed for Anderson and the Crimson. In the meantime, he was Quadded (he and his friends joke, "At least we live in Currier and not Cabot."), he declared himself an engineering concentrator, and he had the Harvard experience of a lifetime...

Author: By Jeremy L. Mccarter, | Title: Doug Anderson Hopes to Hit Paydirt on Saturday | 11/17/1994 | See Source »

...made them cute so we wouldn't kill them, goes the old joke. All anyone wanted to know was how she could possibly have done it. What person watching -- and parents from the President on down couldn't turn their eyes away -- had not felt the sleep-depriving, soul-splitting pressures of parenting and worried about their own capacity for violence? But this was not the typical child murder, the experts rushed to explain, not an outburst of uncontrollable rage turned accidentally fatal. This was cold calculation. Parents who began the week trying to explain to their own children about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death and Deceit | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

Unfortunately, a few episodes are offensively unfunny. The scene where Antoine pulls a cucumber out of one of Magdalena's hidden orifices as she lies on his examining table is unforgivable. The joke is adolescent at best, a mindless exercise in misogyny at worst, lacking artistic motivation or worth in either case...

Author: By Daley C. Haggar, | Title: An Angel at the Type writer | 11/10/1994 | See Source »

Communism became an important issue in everything, including student pranks. In his history The Harvard Century, author Richard N. Smith recalls one time during the 1950s when The Crimson pulled a joke on the Lampoon...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Milder, | Title: At Harvard, Marxism Quietly Goes Out of Style | 10/31/1994 | See Source »

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