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Word: thrillers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Suddenly, what had unraveled for the Harvard field hockey team in the past was clicking on Saturday. Suddenly, the team (4-4, 2-1 Ivy) rocked back to .500, extended its winning streak to two games and jettisoned the sour results of past contests with a 1-0 thriller over Pennsylvania...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Field Hockey Outlasts Penn in Overtime, 1-0 | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

...speed of a game [on turf] is faster," Collins said. "But I like to think that for every game, we'll be fine if we come ready to play."CrimsonPaul S. GutmanSLAP SHOT: Junior JUDY COLLINS rips a shot at the Cornell goaltender on Saturday during the overtime thriller...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Field Hockey Outlasts Penn in Overtime, 1-0 | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

...this is genuine Mametiana: a two-character piece with threats crowding in from the elements (vast space, cold weather, an angry bear) and from a man's bitter, murky soul. It doesn't have much of the Mamet dialogue tang; that is on dazzling display in his forthcoming thriller, The Spanish Prisoner. Still, The Edge, directed by Lee Tamahori, offers enough of what a melodrama demands: two strong characters in mutual creative distrust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: NORTH STARS | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...this one. The picture is an urgent if conventional thriller about the theft of a nuclear bomb by a Serbian terrorist. Every nation wants to defuse the bomb since the terrorist says he will use it to blow up the United Nations. But in Michael Schiffer's script the task is pretty much left to a cowboy and a lady: U.S. Army Colonel Tom Devoe (George Clooney) and nuclear scientist Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman). They race around the globe (the film was shot in 10 countries), kill villains, crash cars and tap on computers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: IS IT A BOMB? | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...course, Hollywood is calling. In the past few years other video directors have made the jump from MTV to feature films; David Fincher, who created videos for Madonna, went on to direct Seven and the forthcoming thriller The Game. Sigismondi says movie scripts have been "flooding in," but that she hasn't chosen a project. Williams is developing a live-action Fat Albert feature for Bill Cosby. Hunter has signed to direct a film for HBO, and Glazer is working on the movie Gangsta Number One. But none of them have yet decided to leave videos for movies permanently. Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEW VIDEO WIZARDS | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

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