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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This movie is quite bad. Example: the house grows eyes and almost eats the main character. The Haunting, starring Liam Neeson and Catherine Zeta-Jones, had few entertaining surprises (I admit it; I screamed once), but for the most part the characters are under- developed and there simply is no atmosphere. Along with the rest of the audience, I mistakenly laughed when I was to be instead seized by terror...

Author: By Lauren M. Hult, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bad Movies are Haunting Liam | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

...main responsibilities will be co-chairing the Harvard Academic Computing Committee and working on projects such as distance learning and digital libraries...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Moriarty Named Assistant Provost | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

...main responsibilities will be co-chairing the Harvard Academic Computing Committee and working on projects such as distance learning and digital libraries...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Moriarty Named New Assistant Provost | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

...Pentagon isn?t ready to give up on the compromise policy issued by President Clinton in 1994, it?s coming out with a new set of guidelines that it hopes will make the feckless policy a little less hard for soldiers, gay and straight, to live with. The main complaint: Soldiers who complained to superiors about gay-bashing - soldiers who may or may not have actually been homosexual - often found themselves targets of investigations into their sex lives that were no less harassing. The Pentagon will try to rectify that on two levels: by ensuring that all investigations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pentagon Questions 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

Neil Cuthbert's clever screenplay is a parable of class. The three main Mystery Men may not be much, but when they audition other heroes in preparation for battle against evil genius Casanova Frankenstein (Geoffrey Rush), they discover there are nicely delineated levels of mediocrity. The Waffler, with his magic Truth Syrup, White Flight and the Black Menace ("We work together")--all are unworthy of joining even this pickup team. But there is talent out there. The Bowler (Janeane Garofalo) has a magic ball with her father's head inside; Dad nags her from beyond the grave. Spleen (Paul Reubens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Hero in the Mirror | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

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