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Fineberg, a long-time friend of Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine, is no stranger to the University, having worked or studied at Harvard continuously since coming to the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fineberg Assumes Provost Position | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

...gets even stranger. Each year a do-it-yourself city appears overnight. On one makeshift street, a three-story tower of scaffolding grows like a high-tech mushroom; draped with a parachute, it becomes an instant cafe. At a table, generous folks with a spare gallon of blue body paint offer to turn you into an alien. Behind them, two guys have built a house out of old wooden doors hauled in on a yellow rental truck. Inside you hear hypnotic techno music. The house will be gone 48 hours later, as will the rest of the instant city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BONFIRE OF THE TECHIES | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

...Tyler (Mira Sorvino) paces edgily on a deserted New York City subway platform. A brilliant scientist who has recently used genetic engineering to eradicate an epidemic, Susan is not smart enough to realize she's in a horror movie and ought to be wary of approaching a tall, hooded stranger to ask the time. The stranger turns and reveals its hideous face--ewwww, a killer cockroach! It enfolds Susan in its great wings and flies off into the subway's dank underworld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: REALLY BUGGED | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

...pocket. Mangold wanted the star to lose his chiseled look, so Stallone gained 40 lbs. of flab--a condition he often felt obliged to explain. "He'd say, 'Hey, I'm doing a movie, that's why I'm heavy,'" Liotta recalls. "He'd say this to a perfect stranger." Sly's first words to Annabella Sciorra, the younger, more alluring Talia Shire type who plays his lost love, were, "Hi, I'm not usually this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SLY'S NEXT MOVE | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

...vast sum of money," Nelson calculates. "My wife's insurance would take care of that if she died." He says this to Carl Van Ness, a stranger he has just rescued from a drowning-suicide attempt in a pond near his wife's house. Here, Nelson believes, is an answered prayer. Since Van Ness seems intent on killing himself--because he believes himself, for reasons unclear, already dead--why would he mind taking out Winona before completing the job on himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: CALIFORNIA BAD DREAMING | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

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