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Attractive young actors and actresses parade in front of the screen playing idealistic intellectual types who associate smoking their choice of cigarettes with the ideal that "one person can change the world," and the desire to "see all the stars in the sky at the same time." But I suspect the phrase in the flyer hinted at something all the more corrupt because it is more sincere. It hinted at the idea to which philosophers like Nietzsche and writers like Hesse have accustomed us; that intensity of experience is all that is the point...

Author: By Alejandro Jenkins, | Title: On the Subject of Blasphemy | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

Still, rent control continues to get people agitated--and it's not about to disappear from Cambridge's radar screen, as the city's several tenants-rights groups show...

Author: By Kirstin E. Meyer and M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Voter Turnout Lowest in Recent Memory | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

...didn't set out to get death threats," Bolan said. "I did feel strongly about a story that had been dropped from the media radar screen." And two years ago, she said, "I decided to go hard after the case...

Author: By Benjamin P. Solomon-schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Female Journalists Honored For Courage | 11/2/1999 | See Source »

...sullen, stocky, difficult fellow, a Hamlet whose soliloquies have to be read in his nervous blinks and stammers, in the latticework under his tired, wary eyes. They are all the hints we need to detect a soul swamped in ethical dilemmas. When Crowe gets to command the screen, The Insider comes to roiled life. It's an All the President's Men in which Deep Throat takes center stage, an insider prodded to spill the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Deep Throat Takes Center Stage | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...free PCs. Now a marketing company, Broadscape.com is giving away free 19-in. computer monitors to applicants who sign up at their website. As always, there's a catch: in exchange for the hardware, consumers must share personal data, like income and interests. And ads will stream across the screen while users are online. With hardware so cheap these days, and advertising so pervasive, consumers will have to decide if the trade-off--mind share for monitor--is worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Nov. 1, 1999 | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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