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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suburban New Jersey high school was a different story. He had two friends and his cousins, who are considered siblings in Ghanian culture, but he could relate to few others...

Author: By Victoria E.M. Cain, | Title: Ashong Trades Harvard's Yard for Spielberg's Set | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...island--to San Diego. "It was something I was saving for a third Lost World movie," Spielberg confides. "When I realized that I would probably leave that directing job to someone else, I selfishly wanted to see the action of a T. rex stomping down a suburban street chomping homeowners." He believes the sequel's dinosaur robots--some of which cost $1 million each and weighed 9 1/2 tons--are more dynamic than those in the original film. "The animals are more involved in helping to tell the story," he says. "They also have more people to eat because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: I WANTED TO SEE A T. REX STOMPING DOWN A STREET | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...most recognizable doctors in the country lives in one of its most private corners, at the foot of the remote Rincon Mountains in southern Arizona. To get there you have to travel about 35 miles outside downtown Tucson, along progressively rutted, flood-prone roads, until an incongruously suburban sign points you to the WEIL RESIDENCE. If Weil didn't show the way, it is unlikely you'd ever stumble across the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DR. ANDREW WEIL: MR. NATURAL | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...concept couldn't be higher--that is to say, simpler: a professional assassin goes to his high school reunion. Ha-ha. Can't you just see the double takes when Martin Q. Blank (John Cusack) tells all those suburban housewives and real estate salesmen what he's been doing since graduation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: HIP YOUNG MAN WITH A GUN | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...also a hunted man, mostly by Dan Aykroyd's Grocer, a goofily rational rival determined either to bring him into a hired killers' union that he is intent on forming or, failing that, to off the competition. Curiously enough, Grocer and his henchmen blend quite easily into the suburban scene. Grosse Pointe may have grander homes and less snow than, say, Fargo, but spiritually they are sister cities--places where everyone tries to maintain an air of chipper blandness in the face of postmodernism's disorder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: HIP YOUNG MAN WITH A GUN | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

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