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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about chatty folks with big guns. Working reverently from Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch, the writer-director tosses half a dozen wary people into the pit of their avarice and lets us guess who will survive. Pam Grier's title character is a flight attendant running money from Mexico to California for her drug boss Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson), who is variously inconvenienced by his lazily taunting girlfriend (Bridget Fonda), his low-IQ henchman (Robert De Niro), an eager fed (Michael Keaton) and an aging bail bondsman (Robert Forster), whose creased face is a road map of disappointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: DECK THE PLEX WITH TARANTINO | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

...just came back from Crete three weeks ago," Donoghue says. "This summer, we're going to Tibet. Last summer, we went to Sichuan.... As a graduate student, for my dissertation I collected in Mexico and Central America. That's what I'd like to do more of in the summer, go on expeditions to collect plants...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Biology 20 Professor Discusses His Passion for Flora, Music | 12/16/1997 | See Source »

Farmer, associate professor of Social Medicine at the Medical School, described his work with medical programs in Haiti, Peru, Mexico and Roxbury, Mass...

Author: By Laura L. Tarter, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Health Care Activist Opens Speaker Series | 12/10/1997 | See Source »

...immense and complicated task of curing East Asia of what ails it? The fund's advocates say yes and point to its many successes over the years, most recently in Mexico. That country recovered in record time from the humiliating 1994 collapse of the peso by promptly adopting IMF reforms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMF TO THE RESCUE | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

...that Titanic would cost a bundle. Cameron, 43, built a 775-ft. replica of the ship, 10% smaller than the real one, and a 17 million-gal. tank in which to sink it. The film was shot at a 40-acre complex Fox set up in Rosarito, Mexico. And Cameron got the studio to pay for repeated dives to the site of the actual wreck, where he deployed cameras specifically designed for his exploration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: TRYING TO STAY AFLOAT | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

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