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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worry, Harvard does have parties, at least on the weekend. Extracurricular groups and House committees plan dances (ranging from the tragically lame Bare as You Dare to the pleasantly lame Leverett '80s Dance). The calendar is sprinkled with formals, especially in the spring--look for the Eliot House Fete, which features chocolate-covered strawberries and swing dancing...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett and Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Campus Connoisseurs: The Inside Scoop to Life at Harvard | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

Besides, in Congress all the pages called me Lame James and kicked...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: The Problem with America is Dan Quayle | 4/20/1999 | See Source »

...Brynner five years later. So who needs another King and I movie? Kids, apparently. So here is an animated feature that expands and dumbs down the story. There's some kung fu, a Jafar-style villain with satanic powers, a cartoon menagerie (funny monkey, majestic leopard, etc.), and lame comedy with a crudely drawn, Buddha-shaped fall guy. It's all needless--and harmless. But even with pretty, painterly backgrounds and the eternal lilt of the songs, this film has a limited target audience: six-year-old boys who want to be Michael Crawford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The King And I | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...years, Carrie--Brian De Palma's chilling film based upon the Stephen King novel-has enjoyed a privilege most horror films do not: the right to stand on its own, untarnished by painfully lame sequels. That is, until...

Author: By Daniel A. Zweifach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Having a Bad Day | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...Reebok; he's sponsoring a mountain-biking team, and has signed prominent snowboarders Ross Powers and Andy Hetzler. It's smart marketing, but he won't necessarily be able to buy credibility in the world of alternative sports, where shunning the Establishment is at least half the point. "Lame," critiques snowboarder Dave Solomon at the University of California, Berkeley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ralph Lauren's Rough Ride | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

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