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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main focus right now is the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet in the first week of February," Cornue said. "That is the toughest remaining meet for us. Princeton will be fully shaved...
...became a free-lancer. Equipped with a police-radio scanner in his car and the most wonderfully named of all old cameras, the Speed Graphic, he chased down the city at its most scabrous, a place where the chief pastimes were groping and bloodletting and where the main thing to remember was that only the strong survive. Eventually he was also a contributor to the liberal daily PM, which put him in the company of literary tough customers like Dorothy Parker and Dashiell Hammett and which reproduced Weegee's prints in a way that did justice to their...
...used to distinguish serious attempts at fiction from novels like, say, Love Story--the trash classic that the aforementioned Gore got in Dutch for suggesting was based partly on him. (The mix-up, as I understand it, came from Gore's impression that he was the model for the main character, Oliver Barrett IV, when in fact he'd been the model for a Harvard Yard lamppost near which the doomed lovers steal a kiss in Chapter...
Brooks' steady direction never allows the two-hour-plus movie to sag. The love story between Melvin and Carol plays itself out with plenty of small comedic surprises, courtesy of a script that keeps the story from getting predictable. The strength of the main characters makes a few of the movie's contrivances--like sending Melvin, Carol and Simon on a car trip to Baltimore just to get them all in one location--easily forgivable...
Although everybody knows how the movie must end, Cameron drains the tension by framing the story of the Titanic decades later through the eyes of the film's main character. The story of the ill-fated voyage is seen through the eyes of Rose (Gloria Stuart) who at the age of 100 tells her experiences to Titanic excavator Brock Lovell (Bill Paxton). Her story involves her romance with the impoverished passenger Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio...