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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another reason these anomalies are encouraging is that they reassure us about our own normalcy. If people are not discussing you at the dinner table, you're probably safe...

Author: By Aparna Sridhar, | Title: Beware Section Freaks And Geeks | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...regular scenes of stare-offs with bottles, or moments of temptation and ultimate white-knuckled resolve in front of seedy liquor stores next to check cash-ins. Loach instead wisely lets Joe's successes speak for themselves, their very modesty giving them a fragility; at one point Joe's safe wallpapering gig almost spins into disaster when a welfare agent snaps telephoto pics to expose his outside earnings (Joe paints the agent's car). Mullen's performance is ultranaturalistic and eerily dead-on in a flashback to the bad old days (one of the really few directorial intrusions, narrated...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Meet Joe Blank: A Recovering Alcoholic Tries The AA Way | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...give the viewer glimpses of what the character really is--an inexperienced 15-year-old putting on a front of institutional disdain. Whether Schwartzman is really a gifted actor or just a sharp kid playing shades of himself will be determined in future films. For now, it is safe to say that he is a shining screen presence in Rushmore...

Author: By Bill Gienapp, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: RUSHMORE ROCKS | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...universities are willing to go to take moral responsibility for their practices. Last year, workers from a Dominican Republic hat factory licensed by Harvard, speaking in front of University Hall, told us that they are paid 8 cents for each $20 hat they make, that the factory lacks safe drinking water and that workers are routinely fired for trying to organize. The American garment industry grosses $2.5 billion per year from the sale of university-licensed products manufactured in plants such as these. Harvard can help to stop this immoral impoverishment by adopting a strong code of conduct that guarantees...

Author: By Benjamin L. Mckean, | Title: The New Student Activism | 2/17/1999 | See Source »

First Bert and Ernie and now Tinky Winky the Teletubbie. When will children's television finally be safe from the onslaught of ambiguously gay puppets? When will those subversives at PBS stop trying to distort the sexual orientations of our five-year-olds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Falwell Fights Good Fight | 2/16/1999 | See Source »

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