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...would certainly be more comfortable with that sort of title," says Owen J. Gingerich, professor of astronomy and the history of science...

Author: By Jason M. Goins and Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: The Graying of theFaculty | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

...street was closed off to all traffic with the exception of emergency vehicles. The pipes that run under the street likely need to be replaced, said Cambridge Interim City Engineer Owen O'Riordan...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Structural Flaws Close Oxford St. To Auto Traffic | 3/26/1999 | See Source »

Rushmore, the idiosyncratic new comedy from Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket), is a film of wonderfully conceived characters. Reflecting their smart dedication to originally, Anderson and co-writer Owen Wilson have devised a colorful, eccentric cast in which two figures stand out as inspired creation. That first is Max Fisher (Jason Schwartzman), a gangly combination of braces, horn-rimmed glasses, greasy black hair and loads of smug self-assurance. A pupil at the posh, upper-crust Rushmore Academy, Max is a bright kid but a lousy student, mainly because he serves as the head of nearly two dozen extracurricular activities, ranging...

Author: By Bill Gienapp, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: RUSHMORE ROCKS | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...CLOUDSPLITTER Was John Brown, the antislavery revolutionary who led the famous 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry, W. Va., a visionary or a madman? Russell Banks frames this question in fictional form, a furious, sprawling drama narrated by Brown's real-life son Owen. The result is a historical novel that is not simply a period piece or a pedantic tract but an imaginative leap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Best Of 1998 Books | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...played with a sort of eerie solipsism by Jason Schwartzman, is the wearying scourge of Rushmore, a slightly tacky private school, and the ambiguous glory of Rushmore, a movie that Wes Anderson directed and co-wrote with Owen Wilson, and that may not be quite as lovable as they think it is. There does come a time when you wish someone would impose a long timeout on the indefatigable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Class Clowns | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

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