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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie Pleasantville marks the second time this year that Hollywood has turned its cameras on itself, with interesting and imaginative results. The first, of course, was The Truman Show, which took television to task for diverting our attention from the real world, accusing the medium of (literally) caging the human spirit in a dome of artifice. TV figures prominently in the complex morality of Pleasantville as well, but the movie is anything but just another case of the media being cynical about the effects of the media (which, by the way, we've had quite enough of). Pleasantville...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, | Title: Adding Color to Sitcom Life | 11/4/1998 | See Source »

David L. McAdams '95, who took Mazur's "Complex Analysis" class, remembers Mazur as "a charismatic man and a very good teacher...

Author: By Vasant M. Kamath, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mazur Named University Professor | 11/3/1998 | See Source »

...took "The X-Files" as an example. Scully, the physicist and skeptic, is often wrong, while Mulder, the "believer" of paranormal, is often right. This characterization "promotes negative stereotypes of scientists and science," Nisbet said...

Author: By Esther S. Yoo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Skeptics Find Fault With Media Portrayals of Paranormal | 11/3/1998 | See Source »

Though students took the incident lightly, in the future, they said, they will check the flue carefully...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Smoke Forces Jordan Residents to Evacuate | 11/3/1998 | See Source »

...took many months of effort and preparation, but the dream of senior Annie Oreskovich has finally come true...

Author: By H. JOSHUA Glassman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Women's Tennis Club Gets Off on Right Foot | 11/3/1998 | See Source »

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