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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...putting my child in an underfunded public school system." If he can't get his new school up and running, says Irving, "I'm moving out of here." And he's avoiding the local press "because I don't want to make my child a target of trailer-park envy." Irving, by the way, is a liberal Democrat. But in Vermont, it seems, the whole world is being turned upside down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revolt Of The Gentry | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

...audience to be created if old-style B-movie stories were made with A-level craftsmanship and enhanced with the latest developments in special effects. Consider such titles as Raiders of the Lost Ark and the other Indiana Jones movies, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. and Jurassic Park. Look also at the films he produced but didn't direct, like the Back to the Future series, Gremlins, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Twister. The story lines were the stuff of Saturday serials, but the filmmaking was cutting edge and delivered what films have always promised: they showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moviemaker STEVEN SPIELBERG | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...ghost watching his girl fall in love with another man. The typical Spielberg hero is drawn to discovery, and the key shot in many of his films is the revelation of the wonder he has discovered. Remember the spellbinding first glimpse of the living dinosaurs in Jurassic Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moviemaker STEVEN SPIELBERG | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...history of the last third of 20th century cinema, Spielberg is the most influential figure, for better and worse. In his lesser films he relied too much on shallow stories and special effects for their own sake. (Will anyone treasure The Lost World: Jurassic Park a century from now?) In his best films he tapped into dreams fashioned by our better natures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moviemaker STEVEN SPIELBERG | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

Self-interest found its way into this year's race for council offices as Stewart and Samuel C. Cohen '00, current council vice president, baited students with "Larry King Live," "The Real World" and "South Park." The students...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Activism Struggles for a Foothold Among Undergrads | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

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