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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called "Old Stoneface" for his constant deadpan which could somehowwhere the facade of a house falls over on him but doesn't touch him as he goes through a window-- that's just one example). Seven Chances is bestknown for the sequence in which his flight from the swarm of brides brings him down a rocky hillside and causes an avalanche of boulders which bound after him just as excitedly as the women...

Author: By Jonathan B. Dinerstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bachelor for Life: O'Donnell Flops Again | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...swarm of officers covered the area within 20 seconds, and discovered Barber, Benoit and Armini holding the suspect on the ground...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Tackles Robbery Suspect | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...groups for his sculptures incorporating dead animals, sliced down their middle or sideways and displayed in all their forensic grimness inside formaldehyde-filled cases. The alarming piece that first brought him fame is here as well: A Thousand Years (1990), with its vitrine full of maggots and flies that swarm over the bloody head of a cow. It's a little pocket of hell: nauseating, unerringly brutal, but its shock looks death terribly in the face. Not silly, not shallow, not shock for shock's sake. Nor is Marc Quinn's Self (1991), in which a cast replica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Shock For Shock's Sake? | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...balloon with him. The sun is shining in the peaceful clouds. Then, all of a sudden the balloon starts hitting poor Billy on the head and then hanging him from the sky and next dropping him to a gloomy fate below. Soon the sky is filled with a swarm of evil balloons carrying little children. This might not quite appeal to your sense of humor, but the films are short enough, ranging from the one-minute Forrest Dump and Foreskin Gump to the longest piece, the six-minute Swing Sluts, that you don't need a particularly long attention span...

Author: By Dunia Dickey and Jennifer Paniza, S | Title: Cinemanic: More Sick, More Twisted | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

Goldman Sachs, Chase, CIBC, JP Morgan--they each swarm the Faculty Club and posh hotels in the Square, lure you with free key chains and fresh caviar and sell you a life "leading to results" and a career path that you can "build on your own." You spend two years of your life in the hectic metropolis that is Manhattan behind a spreadsheet 12 hours a day, with the hope of "turbo-charging" your career...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, | Title: One Alternative to Recruiting | 10/7/1999 | See Source »

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