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Dates: during 1990-1999
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North too is in touch with the supernatural. Wherever he goes, a nameless figure played by Bruce Willis turns up in various guises to help him. Director Rob Reiner strives hard for the tones of a fable, but the result is far from fabulous. There is something smug about North, and about the entire movie. All the substitute parents he interviews are as selfish as North's folks are, and the movie posits a mass movement in which other kids, all spoiled rotten, attempt to emulate North. At least the lost boys in the other movies have authentic problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Hollywood's Huck Finns | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

Another Kennedy volunteer, who also preferred to remain nameless, said the food was far from gourmet because kennedy was trying to feed 2,000 people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

...World, parts of this success story appeared more explicitly 10 years ago in Finding the Center. Naipaul called that piece of writing "Prologue to an Autobiography." The new work is an analogue to that and other earlier books. As in A Way in the World, the nameless narrator of The Enigma of Arrival might as well be called V.S. Naipaul. Raleigh and Miranda were prominent in The Loss of El Dorado; they reappear here in chapters that Naipaul says grew out of ideas for dramas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Literary Platypus V.S. | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

...member of the Class of 1934, who said hewould prefer to remain nameless, remembers readingperiod fondly...

Author: By Gaston DE Los reyes, | Title: Reading Period Designed for Profs | 5/13/1994 | See Source »

Looking through the breast implants has powerful effects. In the porno montage, they unmask the misogyny and artificial sex appeal of breasts. With these bags of silicone, these porno actresses have a commodity value. They remain nameless, but hyper-sexualized. In the case of the breast-feeding film, the bags remind the viewer of the physiological value of breasts that a male-oriented culture has trivialized and reduced to a sexual function. In the light of the recent problems with breast augmentation, LoCurto and Outcault offer the viewer a more natural alternative perspective of the female body...

Author: By Mark Roybal, | Title: Carpenter Show Keeps Abreast of Feminism | 5/13/1994 | See Source »

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