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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...give "Robocop 3" a chance. This first Robocop was a good killing movie. Sure, it wasn't as deep as the "Six Million Dollar Man" series, but hey--it was fun to watch. The second Robocop bit, but the third, a cross between "Rockateer," "Blade Runner" and "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," is even worse...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: New, Not Improved | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

That they can, and that a play which often seems like a cross between King Lear and a Monty Python episode can somehow enmesh its audience emotionally is a tribute to the exceptional work of the Royal National Theatre's repertory company. The cast is exceptional and Bennett's play makes the most...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: The Colonial Captures the Magic Of The Madness of George III | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

Americans unaware of recent events might have been excused for thinking that the photos from the White House lawn were part of some weird Monty Python sketch. Yasser Arafat, whose most recent political allegiance was with Saddam Hussein, being hugged by Bill Clinton? Yitzhak Rabin, who as Minister of Defense six years ago initiated Israel's hard-line response to the Intifadah, shaking Arafat's hand? It all seemed a bit unreal, as if Godot had suddenly appeared to Vladimir and Estragon...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: After Godot's Arrival: Moving Beyond Talk | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

...Italian porn star-politician who rose to fame under the name Cicciolina. The results range in size from small glass figurines to a photo-based mural. The centerpiece is an over-life-size carving of Cicciolina and her swain in rapture, like Adam and Eve, with a giant python curled around their plinth. As pornography, these works are inefficiently winsome; as art, wholly inert beneath their gaudiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Princeling Of Kitsch | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

Elvis has been sighted in the new edition of Bartlett's venerable Familiar Quotations, along with Monty Python, Chuck Berry and Kermit the Frog. But to make room for pop culture, general editor Justin Kaplan had to drop a few dead poets and philosophers. All told, 340 contributors were added and 245 removed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany Roll Over Beethoven | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

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