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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other songs on the album work better. Doll has a fleeting, folksy loveliness, Monkey Wrench throws effective pop punches, and Hey, Johnny Park! has an ingratiating melody. But none has much ambition beyond making a blunt impact. If you're going to spell "colour" with a u in your album title, shouldn't you at least try for pretentiousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: NOT NIRVANA | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

...spelling is not as good, despite spell check, but that's perhaps because of a general decline of spelling in our society," he says...

Author: By Karen M. Paik, | Title: Computers Revolutionize Harvard's Academic Life | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...Fighters fails to contribute any new insights. On one song, 'Up in Arms,' David Grohl actually sings, 'I cannot forget you, girl.' The problem is that there's nothing new here; none of the songs has much ambition beyond making a blunt impact. "If you're going to spell 'colour' with a u in your album title," Farley says, "shouldn't you at least try for pretentiousness?" MUSIC . . . FLAMING PIE: Much of Paul McCartney's new album was composed while he was helping compile the songs on the three Beatles Anthology albums which came out in 1995-96. "The main...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Entertainment Guide | 5/30/1997 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, D.C.: What's in a nym? Plenty. Rebecca Sealfon, 13, correctly spelled "euonym" and claimed the trophy at the 70th National Spelling Bee in the nation's capital. The home-schooled Brooklynite takes home $5,000 in cash, a laptop computer, an encyclopedia and other gifts, plus a huge trophy and her requisite 15 minutes, which include a CNN interview Friday morning. Immediately upon hearing the word, which means a good name or appropriate name for a person, place, or thing, Rebecca knew she had it. Arms raised, she shrieked out each letter with arms raised, finally blurting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Score One For Home Schooling | 5/29/1997 | See Source »

...review any day. "Regardless of what people think of the movie, it's my film," said the director of The Brave. At his Cannes Film Festival press screening, Depp experienced a noble tradition of the 50-year-old festival: booing at the end of a crummy picture. During his spell in Cannes, Depp toted around the Hollywood Reporter, which roundly panned his work. Marlon Brando co-stars with Depp in the grim tale of a poor Native American who agrees to be in a snuff film to earn $50,000 for his family. The pinch-me part for Depp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 26, 1997 | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

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