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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Some faculty were very upset about it because they said that it was sexually threatening," Temple says in retrospect. "But I worked it out with the professor involved, who told me to view this as a learning experience and to be more careful in the future...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: B-School, Paper Achieve Detente | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

That must be what attracted Finerman, whose eight-year crusade to make this movie is already a Hollywood legend. In retrospect, though, Forrest Gump seems a can't-miss proposition. Consider that the only three movies of the past two decades to win both the year's box-office crown and the Oscar for Best Picture -- Rocky, Kramer vs. Kramer and Rain Man -- were canny, poignant fables of men in domestic crisis. Throw in two other high-grossing Oscar winners, Platoon and Terms of Endearment, and you have the recipe for a "mature," feel-good smash. Let's see: retarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: The World According to Gump | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

...retrospect, I wish I had gotten a different degree because I don't know what I can do with this one," Harless says. "I'll do whatever job I find, assuming I can find...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: Ph. D.s Face Bleak Job Prospects | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

Some observers -- including me -- took this grow-up-and-get-to-work-on-real- p roblems line during the Gennifer Flowers episode in early 1992. In retrospect, I think I was wrong. There is an American cultural problem here that sharpens down to a character problem: Bill Clinton's character problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living in Virtual Reality | 5/16/1994 | See Source »

...those thirteen years of home runs, line drives and caught stealings the only time I missed the game was when I was a fifth grader on an extended school field trip to Groton, MA for nature exploration. In retrospect, I should have gone to the game...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: Opening Day Dreamin' | 4/6/1994 | See Source »

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