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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...span oddities of his first two endeavors. Now, shocking devices foisted upon this movie's stultifyingly paced plot and Grier's well-intentioned yet boring performance seem instantly tired. At one point, the "sudden shoot" gimmick--witness Tim Roth's character in Reservoir Dogs, or Pulp Fiction's poor victim of Vincent Vega's gun and a bump in the road--seems downright offensive, suggesting a world where such cavalier violence on a woman is far more disturbing and sinister than Tarantino blindly intended...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: B-Movie Heroine Chic: Tarantino's Hyper-Hip Brew Potent No More | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

What if Microsoft really is the victim of jealous competitors who've whipped the Feds into an anti-Redmond frenzy? If it's politics and not policy that prompted the Justice Department to assail Microsoft this time around, the paper trail may not become public until well into the next century. For now, though, we can look at antitrust history instead, a record dating back the for the past one hundred years that shows the execution of the Sherman Act has been highly partisan and highly protectionist. Read More in The Netly News

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In God We Anti-Trust | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

...reason rarely prevails when personal grief is at stake. Even in liberal Massachusetts, in the wake of several child murders, prompted by the parents of a 10-year-old victim, the State Legislature voted 81-79 to reinstate the death penalty for the first time since...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: Death of a Woman, et al. | 1/5/1998 | See Source »

...Harvard graduate student was the victim of one of the robberies, said the advisory, which was also posted in some upperclass houses. The student was robbed and assaulted on Dec. 18 in a parking lot near Rockefeller Hall...

Author: By Stephanie K. Clifford, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Robberies Prompt Advisory From Police | 1/5/1998 | See Source »

...Wild and wacky Marv Blame the Victim, Part II: sportscaster Marv Albert pleaded guilty to biting a woman during sex, then told Barbara, Katie and Dave it was the woman's fault. Albert ignored the first law of celebrity: being famous allows you to do all the naughty things you ever wanted; it also makes it a lot more likely you'll get caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TOP SPORTS OF 1997 | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

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