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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Russell goes out of his way to emphasize that his heroes are reserve soldiers; they read like a random cross sampling of American life. Chief (Ice Cube) is described as "on a paid four-month vacation" from his job as a baggage handler at the Detroit Airport. Conrad Vig (Spike Jonze), is a boyish, impetuous redneck, and Troy Barlow (an impish Mark Wahlberg), a new father, is his best friend and role model...

Author: By Nadia A. Berenstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gulf, Anyone? | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...Harvard] didn't do anything we didn't expect," Allen said. "We just didn't have any timeouts left. I wish we didn't have to spike the ball...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Football Wins Again, Now 2-0 | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...students were more committed to their various causes. That year saw an unusual spike in the number of protests...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Rise and Fall of Ethnic Studies | 9/23/1999 | See Source »

Someone could make a good movie about a tortured fellow who kills lovers in parked cars on the advice of a talking dog. But in Summer of Sam, a kind of Bronx Boogie Nights, Spike Lee has made a very bad movie with David Berkowitz deep in the background. It's mainly about whether a Bronx hairdresser would rat on his best friend if he didn't get fellated by his wife. How do you say "Huh?" in Italian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bronx Bull | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...Spike Lee movie you can barely see the characters behind all the editorial placards. Da boys in this hood hang out under a big sign reading DEAD END. Vinny the hairdresser (John Leguizamo) cheats on his wife (Mira Sorvino), then takes her to Plato's Retreat for a disastrous evening of group sex. His best friend, Ritchie (valiant Adrien Brody), is a newborn punk who moonlights as a dancer-stud in a gay porno house. The local lowlifes think Ritchie is weird; he's not neighborhood. So he must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bronx Bull | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

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