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...second, senior defenseman Dale Clark netted the game-winning goal at 18:40. It looked like winger Robin Carruthers was attempting to feed Charlie Daniels in the low slot, but the pass went behind him right to the charging stick of Clarke, who rifled it through a screen past Prestifilippo...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey Drops a Pair to Clarkson, St. Lawrence | 2/22/2000 | See Source »

...group was then chiseled down to 10 contestants who participated in an interview with the show's hosts and strutted down the runway in seductively skimpy bathing suits. During the show's final half-hour, the five remaining contestants donned bridal gowns and a mysterious man behind a screen--of which the audience and the contestants knew only one thing: his monetary worth--chose one extraordinarily lucky gal to be his bride...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Money Isn't Everything | 2/22/2000 | See Source »

...that mark completely. The show combines one of our worst characteristics--our ever-lasting pursuit of monetary success--with one of our most respectable social institutions--marriage. The "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?" web-site beckons to only two types of people. The right side of the screen summons anyone who wants to marry a multi-millionaire and the left side of the screen gestures to anyone who already is a multi-millionaire. Anyone who doesn't have any dollar bills to throw around or possesses enough ethics to prevent themselves from picking the Franklins off the ground...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Money Isn't Everything | 2/22/2000 | See Source »

...young women viewers. I could only hope that these women shared my motivations for watching the show; that their confusion and disgust that someone would marry a person they knew nothing about except the size of his stock portfolio prevented them from tearing their eyes away from the screen...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Money Isn't Everything | 2/22/2000 | See Source »

...scared; our eyes tear when we are emotionally touched; and we howl, hoot, whistle and clap when turned on. No amount of technological development will alter our basic instincts. Watch a film in a large theater, and the experience will be doubly charged, not by the size of the screen but by the energy of the audience. Coliseums, football stadiums, rock concerts--to be a part of the action, as opposed to just being a voyeur, is as old as the ritual of performance. Yet bigger does not necessarily mean better. Off-Broadway theater is doing very well right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will We Do On Saturday Night? | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

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