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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This hoopla over the McCaughey septuplets is beyond me. It was bad enough to keep women barefoot and pregnant. Now they have litters." JOY DUSINI Gig Harbor, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 22, 1997 | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

Well, that's it. Steven Spielberg gets the Golden Ladle Award. In a desperate attempt to relive the legitimacy and respect seemingly conferred on him after Schindler's List, Spielberg thought he'd wash the bad taste of The Lost World out of his mouth by once again tackling human suffering. In Amistad, the story of a shipful of African slaves and their struggle for freedom, he pulls out all the stops, pouring on the pathos and the pity, spooning on the sympathy and drenching it all in melodrama. Spielberg has apparently decided to stop making films and instead...

Author: By Jonathan B. Dinerstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Long, Soggy, Overwrought 'Amistad' Plays Heavily on White liberal Guilt | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...fruit is washed before it is served, but Miller suggests that students take extra precautions and wash their fruit before eating...

Author: By Lisa B. Keyfetz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: You Are What You Eat | 12/9/1997 | See Source »

...pediatrician with a direct, matter-of-fact manner, Ruth and her lanky husband Mike had abandoned Spokane, Wash., six months before and settled in the exclusive Cincinnati suburb of Beckett Ridge. A pilot at Airborne, Mike had been commuting by plane to Wilmington for his seven-day work stints, but a terrifying incident had taken place at the Spokane military hospital where Ruth was working: a gunman rampaged through the place, killing five and wounding 23. "I was in Wilmington when it happened," says Mike, 39. "And I said, 'Enough.'" Beckett Ridge was safer, but to Ruth, 35, the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT ESCAPE | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

...point, a ditzy secretary who later claims that John, the narrator, is trying to "power [her] down into a daughter role," comments that "if you're able to open yourself up to [New Age music], it's like a spirit bath." John silently thinks, "Like a brain wash...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sweet Home Minnesota | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

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