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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...promptly left the theater. Others, however, sat rapt with attention throughout the closing credits. The wildly mixed response to the film is likely because of its unconventionality. As the first American "Dogme 95" film, a Norwegian cinematic movement that calls for the "stripping down of film," donkey-boy was shot using hand-held cameras and without written dialogue or special lighting and sound. Throw in some low-tech visual effects (superimposing, slow motion, etc.), and the result is a visual spectacle unlike anything in the American film tradition. Rumor has it that Steven Spielberg is planning his own "Dogme" film...

Author: By Matthew B. Sussman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Spunky donkey a Little Too Funky | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...radio production of Orson Welles' "The War of the Worlds" 60 years ago convinced one million people in the New York-New Jersey region that aliens had landed in nearby Grover's Mill Pond. Some of the local farmers got so carried away by the tale that they shot up the town's water tower, believing it to be an invading ship...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: X-Static! | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

Harvard finally broke through in the game's 31st minute, after freshman forward Beth Totman found freshman midfielder Bryce Weed on a free kick. Weed launched a shot that trickled through the hands of Luckenbill, giving the Crimson a 1-0 lead. Harvard would go on to beat the No. 24 Big Green...

Author: By David S. Stolzar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard, Penn, Princeton Alive for NCAA Berths | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

...Sunday, junior goalkeeper Jordan Rettig blanked Loyola to lead Princeton to a 2-0 win. Freshman forward Krista Ariss followed up a shot that had deflected off the opposing keeper's hands for her fifth game-winning goal of the season. Rettig also shut out Columbia 2-0 on Saturday. The Tigers can help their NCAA Tournament hopes with a victory at Penn on Saturday, which would give them sole possession of second place in the Ivy League...

Author: By David S. Stolzar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard, Penn, Princeton Alive for NCAA Berths | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

...landmark to bring 100,000 people here on Halloween. The town somehow has managed to turn a legacy that was once a curse--for many years after the trials, superstitious buyers shunned land in Danvers, the nearby town where the witch-hunt actually took place--into an annual economic shot...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, | Title: In Salem, A Skewed History Lesson | 11/2/1999 | See Source »

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