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...puns took on a life of their own. Consider Cal Ipsobeat's confession that as an un-hip Jamaican, he thought dreadlocks (which he sports) was a lousy bagel spread. Or a crew member's observation that the gold C3PO knockoff Mike Rosoft (Geoff Oxnard '99) is Excel-lent. Or Sally Vader's encouragement to Hugh Jegg to "Just keep your sunny side up and maybe this will all go over easy!" Not to mention the endless hard-boiled detective references and Star Wars ripoffs...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Drinks Before, Not After | 3/11/1997 | See Source »

...love slave" in a blond friz wig, Posey had to pay half her airfare. For Party Girl, in which she did a beguiling star turn as a club hopper with the improbable dream of being a librarian, she earned the sum of $75 a day. On another movie she lent the producers her credit card to charge rental cars. If Posey keeps on making movies, she could be broke by the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: QUEEN OF THE INDIES | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

...place on the soil of a foreign embassy, turned what might have been simply a debilitating domestic emergency in Peru into an international scandal. It dealt a staggering blow to Fujimori, who has staked much of his political fortune on stamping out homegrown terrorism. At the same time, it lent worldwide recognition to a group of insurgents that Fujimori only two years ago dismissed as a spent force. With some 340 hostages still in rebel hands by week's end, Fujimori faced an appalling choice: confrontation or accommodation. Challenging the terrorists would risk hundreds of lives, including those of ambassadors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GALA AT GUNPOINT | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...homosexual fighting Fascism in A Special Day (1977), the Chekhovian philanderer in Dark Eyes (1987), the gentle padrone besotted by a dwarf in the Argentine I Don't Want to Talk About It (1993), his finest late role. He worked with ambitious auteurs from Altman to Zurlini; he lent his bankability to obscure projects. In his last year he starred with Chiara in Three Lives and Only One Death, an elaborate jape by the Paris-based Chilean Raul Ruiz, and appeared with fellow icon Jeanne Moreau in a sweet vignette--a poignant farewell kiss--in Antonioni's Beyond the Clouds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARCELLO MASTROIANNI (1924-1996): Imperfect, Irresistable | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...think the informal nature of the discussion lent itself to our topic," said Massy Tadjedin '99, who organized the event. "It facilitated the generation of ideas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Panel Focuses on Role of Women at Harvard | 12/4/1996 | See Source »

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