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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reactions are sacred or scared. Justin Renfroe, 27, an Atlanta exterminator, shrugs and says, "I guess I didn't get it." He will advise friends to "wait for the video." After a midnight show at the Angelika, the indie showplace in lower Manhattan where Blair Witch had its theatrical premiere on July 14, a vocal minority is shouting, like a high school football cheer, a chorus of "Bulllllsh__!" But a few persist in believing, even after the final cast and credit roll, that this clever fiction is for real--a documentary that ends in death. "You mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blair Witch Craft | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...that familiar trepidation: "The bad thing about it is the fact that I live in a heavily wooded area, with a cemetery dating back to the 1750s half a block away, it's really late, and my three dogs need to go for a walk. I think they can wait 'til daylight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blair Witch Craft | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...blame that on the summertime, when I am forced by ambiguous occupations to kill the time jotting down scraps of thoughts that no one wants to know or believe. It is all the fault of this artificial period of cancellation of accountability. I cannot wait for the rush of things-to-do descends again, and the right, wrong or sad ways I live a life are obscured by the whats, whens or wheres that pass...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, | Title: Forget Me Not, For The Time Being | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

...prospective parents would prefer to avoid putting an unborn child at risk with amniocentesis, the current test for Down's syndrome, but would they wait the month for a verdict that a new, safer test involves? That's the question being debated following the release of a new study, published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, in which researchers developed a computer program that can collate the results of two non-invasive procedures carried out a month apart to more accurately establish the presence of Down's syndrome. Although neither a first trimester blood test and ultrasound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down's Syndrome Test May Require Too Much Patience | 8/12/1999 | See Source »

...secret formula the company refuses to divulge. (The company did lend me a unit to test, and I was asked to complete the application form.) Another 20,000 will go out by year's end, but odds are you won't win one. My advice: if you can't wait for the next Free-PC lottery, buy a $1,000 system from Gateway or Dell instead. You'll get a 400-MHz system with monitor, a year of prepaid Net access and a one- to three-year warranty. Financing plans can cut the up-front cost to just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tempting Deal | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

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