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...This may be a poor metaphor - a touch on the heavy-handed side - but I think it evokes the sheer strangeness of watching Being John Malkovich, perhaps the oddest romp of a movie I have ever seen. It is a comedy about getting inside other people's heads, and it has the kick of a head trip, which is a clich even though the film is not. This film will polarize people. There will be many people who will hate this film as much as they have ever hated anything, who will break off relationships with dates who dare...

Author: By Jared S. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Insane in the Brain | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

...seemed like an all-right plan at the time--Harvard did, after all, lead 34-3. To even the most casual observers, the Crimson (3-2, 1-1 Ivy) seemed well on its way to emasculating the hapless Rams in a second-half romp...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Secondary Suffers Without Waller | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...outsiders--Princeton alumni, basketball stars, business leaders who'd been courtside at the Garden season after season. It's the same kind of network he has put together for his presidential run. "Nobody else did it before or since," says Torricelli. Bradley won his first race in a romp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Being Bradley | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...Burren was maybe not the ideal venue for the band, since space was tight, but folks were definitely moving to old favorites like "Hurts So Bad," a jumping reggae romp with a mercilessly catchy beat. Ty Gibbons' six-string fretless bass moved beautifully in some of their slower songs like "Sweet May Hill", while Ian Steams' precise guitar-work was more delta blues than plain ol' rock-and-roll. Refreshingly, there was no one lead singer or star to this show--the guitar and bass were mic-ed equally, the drums and Frisbay's scat were given their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Humming Takes Flight | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...Line has seen the light, climbed aboard the Warner Wagon and is hitching a ride all the way to V-I-C-T-O-R-Y. Besides, the crowd in Cincy's going to be smaller than World League audiences, so Warner will feel right at home -- Rams romp over the toothless BENGALS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Top of the Covers | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

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