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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exactly three shots in an indie movie. "Everything goes hilariously wrong," chuckles Corliss. The boom mike dips into the frame. The idiot movie star unaccountably thinks he's a creative artist -- "imagine Kato Kaelin mistaking himself for Dustin Hoffman." It's a funny film, acted with a deft, manic touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES . . . LIVING IN OBLIVION | 8/18/1995 | See Source »

...underwater bird. Compared with the hard-to-maneuver submersibles that now haul deep-sea explorers sluggishly around the oceans, Deep Flight is an aquatic F-16 fighter. It can perform barrel rolls, race a fast-moving pod of whales or leap vertically right out of the sea. With a touch on the controls, a skilled pilot--who lies prone in a body harness, his or her head protruding into the craft's hemispherical glass nose--can skim just below the ocean's surface or plunge thousands of feet below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE OCEAN FLOOR: THE LAST FRONTIER | 8/14/1995 | See Source »

...Marian Lewis, the program's director, puthim in touch with Instrumentation TechnologyAssociated Inc., a Pennsylvania company thatdesigns commercial space hardware...

Author: By Alison D. Overholt, | Title: Thiessen's Science Taking Off | 8/8/1995 | See Source »

...fond memories of critic George Seldes [CHRONICLES, July 17] and his wonderful newsletter, In Fact, which contained news "the press refuses to print." In the 1940s he published a shocking account of smokers and cancer and sadly concluded that in deference to advertisers, the mainstream press would not touch it. It was two decades before anyone else seriously broached the subject. STEWART EAST Santa Clarita, California

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 7, 1995 | 8/7/1995 | See Source »

...Chen, group five's suspect, warns the group not to smell the cup or touch the acetone...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Summer Science Allows Harvard Students, Cambridge Kids to Play With Slime and Sound | 8/4/1995 | See Source »

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