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...Martian colony on a Mexican soundstage.) You want it to blend science fiction, action adventure and suspense. (TR filches blithely from Star Wars and Blade Runner, from RoboCop and Hitchcock films.) You want it to have plenty of cartoon mayhem for the ^ blood brigade. (TR meets its kill quota in the mid-hundreds.) Oh, and if it's not too much trouble, you'd like the movie to be fast, witty, glamorous, with thrill piling on giggle atop gasp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mind Bending on Mars | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

...have an agreement that limits the annual catch Japan can take from those waters. According to Japanese investigators, the Shoho Fisheries Co. struck a deal with a North Korean fishing outfit to lease Japanese boats and market the catch, rigging the ships with Korean flags to circumvent the Japanese quota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Seas: Catch of The Day | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

...will continue to fill its annual quota of 50,000 Jewish Soviet refugees. The Bush administration has refused to increase the quota, in part because of Israeli pressure to have Soviet Jews settle in Israel instead...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: Soviet Jews: Glasnost's Victims | 3/15/1990 | See Source »

...attack on Eurocentrism did not start in the New York public schools. It started at the elite universities. Last year Stanford University changed its course on Western civilization into a curriculum of inclusion by imposing a kind of ethnic and gender quota system for Great Books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Education: Doing Bad and Feeling Good | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

...although Melrose didn't hear a lot of whistles, he did get in his weekly quota of hits. He had a key takedown on a Joel Gardner breakaway in the third period of the Colgate game and crumpled Cornell star Kent Manderville twice on Sunday...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: "Yes Virginia, There is a Hockey Team" | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

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