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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coca-Cola, McDonalds and Levi's Jeans are the magic words in a land that is being overrun by American consumerism: Coke is served at every meal, the golden arches sit imperiously on every few city blocks and entire stores are dedicated to the purchase of los blue jeans...

Author: By Abby Y. Fung, | Title: The American Invasion | 9/17/1997 | See Source »

Director Nick Cassavetes is less a full-fledged auteur here than a cheerleader and referee, keeping the stars fighting without biting. Wright, like Maureen, is game for any outsize challenge, but her bantam desperation sounds shrill; at times she is overrun by the wild gestures that seize Maureen. Travolta, though, balances nicely on a seesaw of caring and exasperation; and Penn has every garish shade of Eddie in his palette. He gets the pain, charm and drive, the stumbling humor of a guy whose only religion is the woman who betrayed him. He turns a jerk into a heroic figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: IF JOHN COULD SEE THEM NOW... | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

...looks bloated, and his face wears defeat as its due. The sheriff of a Jersey suburb overrun by venal New York City cops, he is seen as a genial buffoon. Even the metallic voice of a video game tells him, "You have no authority." He seems almost at ease with his fate--one of those rare men who don't dare to dream or think of themselves as hero material. Imagine an older Rocky Balboa who got clobbered until he was half deaf, and whose Adrian dumped him to marry the town scumball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SLY'S NEXT MOVE | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

...reforms were undercut by his unrelenting war against cocaine barons; of stomach cancer; in Bogota. A former mayor, the owlish-eyed, professorial Barco stammered his way to the presidential palace in 1986. With neither flair nor fanfare, he hunkered down to combat poverty and drugs until his administration was overrun by vengeful cartels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 2, 1997 | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...been suggested that the town stops for two Mondays consecutively in February and the four teams here become the focus of this city's attention. This year we were definitely in danger of being overrun by a flood of Super Bowl victory parties, but seeing that those have been canceled everyone will be looking our way again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Captains Reflect on Beanpot | 1/30/1997 | See Source »

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