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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this word-of-mouth publicity (or word-of-web) portends an unpredictable and irresistibly thought-provoking movie, the kind of inventive thriller over which the audiences drool. Such a movie, I disappointedly found out, The Minus...

Author: By Nate P. Gray, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Confusion, Not Conversation Follows | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...next year would siphon at least $18 billion of the fund's surplus. And that, it said, was a conservative estimate. DeLay and the rest of the GOP leadership had little to say about the apparently glaring contradiction; the GOP rank and file sound worried. Under nocircumstances? "That's kind of an absolute statement," fretted Illinois representative Ray LaHood. Added Indiana representative Mark Souder, "If the impression comes out that we're into Social Security but not admitting it, that's almost worse than [spending the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yes, Folks. It's Another Fiscal Year, and Another GOP Budget Blunder | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

...Hopefully you'll follow the latter course, the course also the course less taken (kind of like Math 25). I, for instance, might take a swing dance class instead, or perhaps just shake my booty all night long at a long parade of formals in the spring. Or perhaps I'll simply continue to irritate my roommates by asking them to teach me that move just one more time...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Stepping to Success | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

...kind of forum/class/seminar inhibits your ability to relax, cultural diversions are the solution. Students, their IDs, and five bucks meet chamber music and a flower-filled courtyard at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (The Fenway, Boston; 566-1401; T or No. 39 bus: Museum of Fine Arts; Thursday, Friday and Sunday afternoons and evenings; lectures, gallery and garden tours and jazz series are also offered; museum open Tuesday to Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.). Pretentious, yes, but these soundscapes will soothe the mind, especially since there is no final exam...

Author: By FM Staff, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Mental | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

...Drum," published in 1959, cited as "one of the enduring literary works of the 20th century." "It?s an excellent award, 30 years overdue, but better late than never," says TIME literary critic Paul Gray. "?The Tin Drum? was a pioneering attempt at new fictional forms, a kind of postmodern attempt at super-realism to deal with the bizarre and ugly rise of Nazism. It was an attempt to explore history through a kind of surreal fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Belated, but Still Worth Banging a 'Tin Drum' | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

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