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Every day in Charleston, S.C., the South rises again. Airport advertisements hawk local plantations preserved in antebellum splendor. The Old City Market sports Sambo lawn jockeys and fat black mammy dolls holding pigtailed blond babies. And a few blocks away, the Rebel flag blazes in a store window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Whistling a New Dixie | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

...town recluse. With its superficial storyline, cast of adolescent unknowns and a serial killer armed with a lethal fish hook, Summer keeps the suspense to a minimum and the plot to a formula. It makes a perfect 80s slasher flick but pales in the wake of Scream's splendor...

Author: By Peter A. Hahn, | Title: I Know What You Did Last Summer | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

...actors and a serial killer armed with a lethal fisherman's hook, I Know What You Did Last Summer keeps the suspense to a minimum and the plot to a formula. The movie sounds perfect as an 80s horror flick, but pales in the wake of Scream's splendor...

Author: By Peter A. Hahn, | Title: I Know What You Did Last Summer | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

Sunlight is composed of seven colors; so is our world full of colors and splendor. Each country and every nation has its own historical and cultural traditions, strong points and advantages. We should respect and learn from each other and draw upon others' strong points to offset one's own deficiencies for achieving common progress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Enhance Mutual Understanding and Build Stronger Ties of Friendship' | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...course, this is all but one side of the police force-the inside. To the rest of L.A., as portrayed in the tell-all rag penned by the repulsive Sid Hudgeons (an irritating-as-heck Danny DeVito), the police force is personified by the slick shining example of sartorial splendor, Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey). With busts carefully engineered through planted drugs or hommes fatales, Vincennes and Hudgeons put on a show for the public that leaves the face of the L.A. police indistinguishable from the ruthlessly just, squeakyclean "Dragnet"-type TV program Vincennes advises...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men in Blue: Slick Film Goes Behind Closed Doors | 9/19/1997 | See Source »

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