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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these commercial drawbacks, the original distributors sent Red Rock West straight to cable and video. Another outfit picked it up, however, and it is belatedly making its way into a few theaters. It's well worth tracking down, wherever you can find it. For it has the kind of tension and energy -- maybe even a touch of delirium -- that is only a memory in most of today's big studio movies. You just know that no one connected with Red Rock West owns a suit or a tie or knows how to write a self-protective memo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Equal Opportunity Evil | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

Remembered by most for the 1940 Katharine Hepburn/Cary Grant/Jimmy Stew-art film adaptation, The Philadelphia Story ambitiously tackles a number of themes, from class tension to divorce to parent-child relations. The play revolves around Lord (Janine Poreba), a wealthy socialite who is tired of men, from her father to her ex-husband, telling her how untouchably wonderful she is. With Tracy set to marry newly-rich social climber George Kittredge (J.C. Wolfgang Murad), her wedding promises to be a gala affair, drawing reluctant reporters Elizabeth Imbrie (Emily Gardiner) and Mike Connor (Jason Watkins...

Author: By Diane E. Levitan, | Title: High-Toned Streets of Philadelphia | 5/5/1994 | See Source »

...does create tension because it is anundercurrent in...the council," Triantafillousays. "It's all the attention that's being paid tothe issue by the press and by the people...Weshould be focusing on other issues...

Author: By Julie H. Park, | Title: Council to Walsh: Should He Resign? | 4/27/1994 | See Source »

...tension between SDS veterans and newermembers was increasing. The students' protests hadplaced the league's tax-exempt status at risk...

Author: By Emily Carrier, | Title: Student Group Defined the Decade | 4/22/1994 | See Source »

...tension between SDS veterans and newermembers was increasing. The students' protests hadplaced the league's tax-exempt status at risk...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Then as Now, Students Took On ROTC | 4/22/1994 | See Source »

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