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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This said, there is therefore something appealing about an unambitious movie, one without pretentions of grandeur. "Angie" could easily have slipped into that overworked category of "heart warming" movies, the ones that would lavish overweening sentiment on the death of a pet if it would wrench a single tear from the audience. It could have, but luckily it doesn...

Author: By Jeannette A. Vargas, | Title: Babes in Bensonhurst | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

...exactly a typical Grant movie. He plays not his usual-an urbane husband-but a nerdy professor who tries to keep up with an airheaded socialite and her pet leopard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Catch a Movie Star | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

Jennifer (real name also withheld) is an LWF who has animal rights as her pet cause. She has adopted a vegetarian lifestyle to symbolize her solidarity with our fine four-footed friends...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Stereotyping the LWF | 2/19/1994 | See Source »

...Congress this week. The plan eliminates more than 100 federal programs, caps or cuts spending in 600 others, and trims 100,000 jobs from the federal payroll. The billions in cuts are necessary to meet congressionally imposed limits on discretionary spending and to increase funds for the President's pet projects: the Head Start program for preschoolers, worker training and highway construction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week January 30-February 5 | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...posh Slavyanskaya Hotel, clad in black tuxedo, paisley cummerbund and bow tie. Asked about how his much publicized anti-Semitic remarks square with reports that his father was Jewish, he said he envies Jews because they are "the richest nation in the world." Then he reaffirmed one of his pet projects: replacing Moscow's Jewish television announcers with blue-eyed Russians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Farce to Be Reckoned With | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

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