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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talking about a major upgrade," Steen said...

Author: By Shira H. Fischer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Slow Servers Should Be Fixed Within Weeks | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...savings at the slot machines and streets burdened with violent crime attract your average vacationer? Because that, my friends, is an urban legend that had a hold on our imagination until about two years ago--and the myth has finally been exploded once and for all. (I credit every major news magazine that runs a "The New Las Vegas" story when they run out of Campaign 2000 fodder...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SOMAN'S IN THE [K]NOW | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...exactly is more deluded), you have the returning Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head (now officially married), Slinky Dog, the incontinent Hamm, the still neurotic Rex and the ever-prone-to-PDA Bo Peep. The sequel adds a few new ones--most notably, Barbie (Mattel realized they lost a major marketing chance when they refused to let Pixar use their infamously-proportioned doll in the first film). Also in the fray are Wayne Knight's villainous Al McWhiggen, a proprieter of a nearby toy store who dreams of selling Woody to a Japanese museum (why Japanese? Exhibit A of Pixar subversiveness...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Toys are Back in Town for Pixar's Latest | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...wonder whether Pixar will ever split from Disney. God knows they'll have the money after Toy Story 2 finishes its run (the gross could potentially top out at $300 million). If they do go independent, expect an epic showdown. Unlike every other major studio that has recently built an in-house animation studio, Pixar has the goods to compete with the Mouseketeers. But such animated politics need not concern us. Like I said, we don't want to know why. We don't want to know how. We just want our cartoon...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Toys are Back in Town for Pixar's Latest | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...seems that every studio's major Oscar contender runs at 160 minutes. Two hours and 40 minutes to tell a story? I have no doubt that Toy Story 2 tells a bigger, faster, cooler...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Toys are Back in Town for Pixar's Latest | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

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