Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early murmur of unrest dented The Phantom Menace's doctrine of infallibility. Recall that last year's highly hyped, sure-hit fantasy adventure--Godzilla--was out-grossed at the North American box office by such modestly budgeted frippery as There's Something About Mary, The Waterboy and Rush Hour...
After the big rush, many Toys 'R Us stores, including the one in Alewife, pulled most of their regular Phantom Menace action figures off the shelves a few days after the release, to hold them until the film opens, when they will reportedly be released for a lower price. While this may ostensibly serve to combat the collectors who took half the merchandise in the first place, I can't help but remember what it was like for me as a kid, when I went to get that new figure I was excited about and had to settle for some...
...After the big rush, many Toys 'R Us stores, including the one in Alewife, pulled most of their regular Phantom Menace action figures off the shelves a few days after the release, to hold them until the film opens, when they will reportedly be released for a lower price. While this may ostensibly serve to combat the collectors who took half the merchandise in the first place, I can't help but remember what it was like for me as a kid, when I went to get that new figure I was excited about and had to settle for some...
...myself. I can still remember the first time I watched what is now known as "Episode IV"--squirming in disgust as the heroes are locked in the trash disposal with that ugly serpent thing, the nail-biting encounter between Darth Vader and Obi-Wan, that adrenaline rush you get during the sequence where Luke successfully blows up the Death Star. And while I didn't think I'd be too excited about the release of "The Phantom Menace"--I figured I could see it sometime in August, when the shows are no longer sold out--it pleased me more than...
Harvard students both rush to investment banking info sessions and lambaste them in editorials. They speak ironically of "i-bankers" and long hours on The Street. The field, though, remains a mystery to most students--even to some who are planning to pack up and move south after graduation to spend 80 hours a week crunching numbers and pushing papers in a New York i-banking firm...