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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which means that the maneuvering is getting serious. In response to a September letter signed by 21 Republican members of Congress, the Treasury Department has begun looking into the IRS decision to audit Jones and her husband Stephen, an inquiry begun just a few days after they reportedly turned down a $700,000 settlement offer from Clinton's lawyers. At first blush, revenge by audit would seem so heavy-handed and visible a tactic that no one would try it. That was what White House press secretary Mike McCurry meant in September when he said, "We do dumb things from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let The Games Begin! | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

...show closed. Such contracts are, of course, vital to the arrangement of institutional art loans. The free circulation of works of art among museums depends on them. "If we can't honor our contracts, it will have the iciest chilling effect on loans," MOMA's legal counsel, Stephen Clark, told the New York Times. "Who would lend, knowing that the pictures might not come back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hold Those Paintings! | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

Both Harte and senior Stephen Brannon, who won the pole vault, describes the meet as easy...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. and W. Track Teams Kill Huskies | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...Amistad, the story of a shipful of African slaves and their struggle for freedom, Stephen Spielberg pulls out all the stops, pouring on the pathos and the pity, spooning on the sympathy and drenching it all in melodrama. Spielberg has apparently decided to stop making films and instead to start performing "filmmaking." Despite a number of excellent performances, what could very well have been a poignant and emotional tale is so concertedly and self-consciously delivered as such that it just comes out muddied and misconceived. --Jon B. Dinerstein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

...high paced action scenes, abundant chases, explosions and lavish gadgetry with which a Bond film is now associated has entertainment value of its own. But to claim that the current films have any more tradition or class to them than any generic action movie with say, Arnold or Stephen Segal, is bunk. Better to just do away with the whole cumbersome apparatus and obligatory baggage which slapping a Bond label on a movie entails, and instead devote the energy to making good original action films...

Author: By Jonathan B. Dinerstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: When Bond Flicks Are Formulaic, Everyone Loses | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

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