Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...James Hong) and a Yoda-esque mensch (Victor Wong). In this Temple of Doom there are girls with green eyes and beasties with red ones; the sword- flashing legerdemain and wind-whipping backflips of martial-arts movies; a tough guy who literally explodes from rage when his master dies; oh, and a giant uggy insect in the caverns under Chinatown...
...Harrison Ford trying to be John Wayne trying to be the Surly American. Everything else in the film is at the same three removes from reality. Little China offers dollops of entertainment, but it is so stocked with canny references to other pictures that it suggests a master's thesis that moves...
...criminal charges. To earn a chance for leniency, Wilkis and Sokolow extended swift cooperation to authorities. Wilkis resigned from E.F. Hutton even before the SEC brought its case. Sokolow's lawyer said his client, who majored in economics at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and earned a master's degree from the Harvard Business School, was experiencing a "terribly sad and difficult time for a young man of great decency and enormous promise." Wilkis agreed to pay $3.3 million, which represents stock-trading profits and penalties, while Sokolow will turn over $210,000, which includes fines...
Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun '29 will speak to about 450 invited guests about his days as an undergraduate when he rowed crew and sang for the Harvard Glee Club. In addition, President Derek C. Bok and the master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge--which John Harvard attended--will address the dinner guests, said Cristina V. Coletta '87, co-chairman of the celebration...
...Disney's success turned the innovator into a caretaker at the mausoleum of his own style. After his death, the studio limped along on audio-animatronic pilot, while the true heirs of the true Walt--canny kids like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Jim Henson --updated the old master's tricks and made pots of dough. Now a new generation of Disney artists, some young enough to have made Star Wars, Close Encounters and the Muppets their boyhood models, has produced a cartoon feature in the old Disney tradition. And Henson and Lucas have teamed for an ambitious flight...