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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Three Kings seems at first quite fantastical: four bored soldiers, AWOL with a hum-vee, searching for buried treasure. With the grizzled Major Archie Gates (George Clooney), a disillusioned officer leading their illicit adventure, these swashbucklers embark upon their search for hidden Kuwaiti gold led by a secret map concealed in a captured Iraqi's ass, affectionately dubbed "the ass map," with a duffell bag filled with grenade rigged nerf footballs. Denied any of the war's action, these four soldiers enthusiastically seek their last chance to blow things up, now that the war is officially over. Russell goes...
September is a month of change in Boston. Leaves change colors, the Red Sox choke, and teenagers from across the nation and the world descend upon the Commonwealth in search of higher education, becoming an economic force to be reckoned with. No one is more aware of this than local radio stations, which go to great lengths to seduce this mass of purchasing power. Few are guiltier of such shameless snakecharming than 104.1 WBCN, the "Rock Revolution", who sponsored the College Rave '99 at the BankBoston Pavilion on Sunday. With a college ID and ten dollars, you could be subjected...
...Gates turns out to be right. Wielding their guns, they enter the designated bunker, Gates holding the cease-fire agreement in front of him like a search warrant, repeating, "In the name of President Bush, and under the terms of the cease fire-agreement, let us through. We are here for your protection and safety." The Iraqis show no fear or hostility, and surround them with pleas for food, medicine and help. This reception is not what they expect, and this scene of the movie, shot with grainy, color-saturated ektachrome film, presents their situation as almost surreal. The walls...
...Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge University then launched into an hour-long lecture, touching on the nature of time, "p-dimensional superstrings," and the search for a unified "theory of everything...
...their VCRs. The result, if users embrace it, is the telefuturist's grail: TV on demand. "It takes away the meaning of prime time," says Rob Enderle, an analyst at Giga Information Group. "The time a show is broadcast becomes meaningless." ReplayTV allows users to create "channels" based on search criteria, like home-improvement shows or Steve McQueen movies. TiVo lets you search by category and makes recommendations based on how you have rated other programs...