Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...framing device--an elder Private Ryan saluting the grave of his savior--seem a bit forced and hokey. What matters most is that the story is merely a vehicle for transporting the viewer from one spectacular, eerily realistic battle scene to another. A great part of the movie's near-three hour length consists of guns, tanks, limp bodies, bloodshed and explosions--all of which, though accurately and emotionally depicted, do not constitute a war movie. Instead, they constitute a war. Private Ryan is, for the most part, missing the movie which should come along with the battles...
...sure, there will be plenty of action among the big guys in the near future. Too much money is still pouring in over the transom. And with Intel preannouncing better revenues last week, the personal-computer sector, dominated by S&P companies, is turning...
...hear Lynch loud and clear, and have made a study of what value looks like: cyclical stocks trading at only 7.5 times their expected 1999 earnings; institutions like Staten Island Bank and Webster Financial of Connecticut selling near book value; broken initial public offerings (like Keebler, or Waddell and Reed Financial), which have exciting prospects a year...
DIED. JOHN HOLLIMAN, 49, CNN's national correspondent; in a car crash; near Atlanta. Holliman was part of the original CNN reporting team and, together with Bernard Shaw and Peter Arnett, filed live from Baghdad during the 1991 allied bombing. He was scheduled to co-anchor with Walter Cronkite John Glenn's return to orbit next month...
Walter Kirn is a TIME contributor who lives near Livingston, Mont. He is currently at work on Thumbsucker, a new novel