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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...saving grace of the movie is the renowned cast and their moving, spirited performances. Danny Glover, who is pretty much only seen in the increasingly silly Lethal Weapon movies these days, delivers an ardent reminder of what a fine actor he really is. His portrayal of Paul D is vivacious, endearing and painfully vulnerable. Kimberly Elise gives a burning, multifaceted performance as Denver. She conveys so much with one facial expression that she is able to counter with relative ease Thandie Newton's grating-at-best turn as Beloved. Oprah Winfrey, who snatched up the rights to Morrison's book...

Author: By Bill Gienapp, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Beloved' Spreads Its Boughs | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...would also note, as I have stated before, that almost every instance of serious behavioral misconduct at Harvard (physical violence, destruction of property, etc.) is associated with alcohol. Even when drinking is not to a potentially lethal level, it impairs students' judgment in ways that can have very serious long[-]term consequences for them, since we do not consider it exculpatory when a student states, as an excuse for some misbehavior, `I was drunk at the time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Not Guilty of Being Complacent on Binge Drinking | 10/7/1998 | See Source »

...campaign, in Maryland, that Bremer, one of America's lethal, boardinghouse nonentities, gunned him down. Wallace campaigned again, in 1976, but as a ghost of himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGE CORLEY WALLACE: 1919-1998: Requiem for an Arsonist | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...some point in recent years, action movies began to resemble pop versions of action painting. Their connections with traditional narrative and their concern for realistic representations of the natural world and the way human beings might plausibly behave in that world virtually vanished. Watching a Die Hard or Lethal Weapon sequel or anything by the Hong Kong action specialist John Woo, you entered a two-dimensional world in which what you mostly thought about was, as it were, the surface of the canvas--the tension and originality with which the director slapped, slathered or slashed his colors on it. Like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Abstractly Expressive | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

Overall summer business finished 12 percent stronger than last year's, with $2.5 billion and nine films making more than $100 million: "Armageddon," "Saving Private Ryan," "Deep Impact," "Dr. Dolittle," "Godzilla," "There's Something About Mary," "Lethal Weapon 4," "The Truman Show" and "Mulan." The fall season kicks off next weekend with "Rounders," starring Matt Damon and Edward Norton, and "Simon Birch," a critically maligned adaptation of the John Irving novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There's Still Something About 'Mary' | 9/8/1998 | See Source »

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