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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...natural for center on the school basketball team and landed him an athletic scholarship to Jesuit- run Georgetown University, 22 years before Bill Clinton arrived there from Arkansas. Friends learned then not to think Hyde's usual civility meant he lacked a fighting spirit. Corboy recalls Hyde getting mad at him during a game of two-on-two basketball. Says Corboy: "He threw the ball either at me or against the wall in an expression of complete rage. I said, 'It's only a basketball game.' And he replied, 'What else is there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nice Guy In A Nasty Fight | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...next to you at the office are incredibly evil." But the spookiest character, Gazzara's, is the man who feels nothing, is in love with no one, does not pursue happiness. And the sweetest, awfullest moments are in the connection between a normal kid (brave Rufus Read) and his mad, bad dad. "He's not a demon," Solondz says of the father; "he's possessed by a demon. He's a predator--and a tragic figure who loves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In A League Of Their Own | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...Paris gang preying on the rich and eluding their nemesis, a crusading reporter. He is the nominal hero, but the villains are the stars: smarter, snazzier. They scamper over the roofs of Paris in their Spider-Man skivvies; they perform the great stunts; they are the master spies, the mad bombers, the killer caterers. And in Irma Vep (played by Musidora, fetchingly saturnine in pancake makeup and black tights), Les Vampires gave us film's first modern woman. No wonder the Paris police banned an episode for depicting "exalted evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Serial Thriller | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...Manchester club scene in the early '90s, the two DJs were the Dust Brothers, attracting a cult following at the clubs Naked Under Leather and Most Excellent. Their mixing philosophy and music choice at the time are best described by Rowlands himself, "Big Bass, Big Drums, Siren, Mad." Brother's Gonna Work It Out includes several songs frequently mixed by the Dust Brothers during their early shows. Samples from DBX, Serotonin Project and Dubtribe Sound System all provide glimpses into the past of the Chemical Brothers...

Author: By Benjamin A. Teply, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Turning Beats To Bucks: 'Work' Well Worth the Labor | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...almost 69 minute album of 23 mixed songs is divided into only five tracks; even the boundaries between the tracks are not at all distinct. It should be listened to in its entirety as it's pretty much non-stop mad beats from start to finish. The themes introduced at the end of the first track continue into the second as the familiar vocals blend with a prominently repeated bass riff. A few minutes later, the mix takes on a retro feel while incorporating samples from Kenny Dope, Badder Than Evil and Unique 3. This sound--which mixes several samples...

Author: By Benjamin A. Teply, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Turning Beats To Bucks: 'Work' Well Worth the Labor | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

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