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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is precious little breathing room for any of the family features this holiday season. Says Paramount motion-picture-group vice chairman Rob Friedman: "The movies are going to cannibalize one another. All you can hope is that parents during the holidays take their children to multiple movies." Or as any bug can tell you, the trick will be to avoid getting squashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Battle Of The Bugs | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

Mandela walked to the prison gates. He later told friends, "Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Born Into Racism, Mandela Overcomes | 9/18/1998 | See Source »

Randall--who described the pre-renovated building as "depressing in terms of the ceiling height and lighting"--said improving the building's lighting was one of her primary goals. To this end, the architect, Rob Olson, created alcoves along each wall with inset lighting that projects onto the ceiling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Face | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

Even among hard-core pornographers, Rob Black is considered a sleazebag. His movies are packed with images that the porn industry itself has long censored (rape, drug use, hitting women with dead fish), and he gleefully rebels against the industry's recent agreement to have its stars use condoms. At last month's Video Software Dealers Association convention, held in 115[degree] Las Vegas heat, Black, 25, stands in a black suit with a black sweater, his face multipierced and satanically goateed. His mother, a plump, pleasant-looking nurse from Rochester, N.Y., bursts into the curtained-off adult section...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Porn Goes Mainstream | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

...rawer than anything seen before. Black, who rules in the shock department, sends his mother copies of his movies with the sex scenes edited out. Even then, she says, "I have gotten after him for the things that he's done in some of these movies. I said, 'Rob, I don't want to see any more movies with pregnant women in them. That's so tacky.' He said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Porn Goes Mainstream | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

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