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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Oddly, a movie that features a trash-talking Apostle and a female God is not one with which Disney is eager to be associated. Dogma, written and directed by KEVIN SMITH, takes an unorthodox look at religion, and Disney, producer Miramax's parent company, fears it will offend Roman Catholics. So Miramax honchos Bob and Harvey Weinstein have said they'll buy the rights to the film and sell it to another distributor. Smith, a practicing Roman Catholic, says the movie "was always intended as a love letter to both faith and God almighty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 19, 1999 | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...same neighborhood. The restaurant condones eating with your fingers and dressing in period-costume and is an appealing alternative to the typical Harvard dining hall experience. A minstrel entertains diners, and the "semi-improvisational show" has been likened to a Mel Brooks or Leslie Nielsen skit that "might offend the more conservative." Dinner shows are every night of the week. (617) 423-4900 for reservations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUNDAY FEB 28 | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

Unlike the workers' housing that Le Corbusier designed near Bordeaux in France, where individual touches by the mere inhabitants offend the architect's conception, Levitt homes were made to be customized. The avid householders of Levittown got busy, adding porches, dormers and new wings, the outcroppings of anybody's headlong life. The line on their town used to be that Levitt houses were indistinguishable from one another, and the people would be too. But the place is now, as a town is supposed to be, a work in progress, a setting that can be held to the light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suburban Legend WILLIAM LEVITT | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...benefits: though just 9% of companies offer child care at or near work, an additional 12% are planning to do so. Even business lingo is getting sensitized: "family-friendly" policies--benefits that help working parents find time for soccer games--often become "lifestyle-friendly" policies so as not to offend single folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Coors Went Soft | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

Before one critical word is written about comedian and television personality Jon Stewart's book Naked Pictures of Famous People, it must be noted that one of the stories in the book is entitled "Martha Stewart's Vagina." How do you feel about that? Does it offend you? Does it make you laugh? Should you even care...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Co-Ed Naked Comedy With Jon Stewart | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

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