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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much violence," murmurs Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) as he cleans out his desk at the end of The Untouchables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In The American Grain THE UNTOUCHABLES | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

Similarly, "Wrong In The Charts" uses low vocal distortion to offset some Beatle-esque harmonies, and "San Quentin, CA" muddles a country ballad with a batch of terrific grunge. The best tune here is "Loch Ness Monster," an outlandish love song directed at Scotland's most famous anachronistic ichthyosaurus, more commonly known as "Nessie...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Nessie, I Love You | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

...original James Bond, but Sean Connery had his hands full playing Malone, the broguish cop in The Untouchables, which finished shooting last week in Chicago. "It's pretty cumbersome," says Connery of the tommy gun, one of the weapons he carries when he teams up with Crime Buster Eliot Ness, played by Kevin Costner (Silverado). But the tommy gun is one of the few things the Brian De Palma movie has in common with the vintage TV series, which ran from 1959 to 1963 and featured a jailed Al Capone. In the film, for example, Capone, played by Robert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 24, 1986 | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

Deep in the bowels of University Hall, L. Fred Jewett--'L' for "Law 'n' Order"--was plotting the crackdown that would once and for all make Harvard Yard a safe place for elderly grandmothers and university presidents. Flanked by his two highly paid consultants--Elliot Ness and Wyatt Earp--Marshall Jewett was going over the various proposals to bring the University's nogoodnicks to their knees. Bok loomed over Jewett's shoulder, showing inordinate interest in the plans of his two-fisted, iron-bellied lieutenant...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: The Lords of Discipline | 11/13/1986 | See Source »

...dealt with the doubts and worries that some Harvard students feel, yet in writing with that goal in mind, he neglected to show that for every Harvard student of Asian descent who has such preoccupations, there is another Asian American here at Harvard who does not ponder his "Asian-ness versus American-ness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Asian Americans | 11/1/1986 | See Source »

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