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Garbed in goggles, plastic aprons and purple plastic gloves, eight students on the Recycling Committee sorted through the University's waste yesterday to figure out just how well Harvard is recycling its trash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Sort Trash | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

Opening garbage bags taken from first-year dorms, libraries, upper-class houses and several administration buildings, the committee separated the trash into three categories: cardboard, paper and containers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Sort Trash | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...movie monsters--vampires. After dreaming up such characters as Michael Myers, Snake Plisken and Starman, there's no way Carpenter's career could have been complete without at least one film about bloodsuckers. The resulting effort is John Carpenter's Vampires, a piece of joyful, over-the-top, gonzo trash film-making that delights in wallowing in its own bloodbaths. Every vampire film boasts its own interpretation of the sacred "rules" of vampirism. In Vampires, James Woods' master slayer, Jack Crow, snarls "Forget everything you've seen in the movies. It's not like vampires go around seducing everyone with...

Author: By William Gienapp, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: John Carpenter's Vampires Has a Bloody Bite | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...three times a day. Todd, thought dead after a confrontation with the biggest and meanest of the new breed (Cain 607, played by Jason Scott Lee), is sent to a waste disposal planet where he regains consciousness and is befriended by a group of settlers stranded on the intergalactic trash heap...

Author: By Stephen G. Henry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MEN OF WAR | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...earnest drug documentary. Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights) has beaten them all with this black-and-white, slow-motion interpretation of Apple's dreamy Beatles cover from the Pleasantville sound track. While a makeup-free Apple dreamily croons in a '50s diner, mod-looking boys in steel-toe boots trash the place. Sure, we've seen the juxtaposition of music and violence before, but rarely done so well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music Video: Across The Universe | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

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