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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That, of course, is Norton's greatest feat as an actor. He's a juggernaut of emotional range and complexity with a porcelain visage. He'll kill flies, oh yes. And he'll also embarrass any actor onscreen with him who isn't as dexterous or willing to get their hands dirty. Norton, thank God, will probably never be in a movie like You've Got Mail because his intensity would just liquify all the fluff. He's like the Miranda Richardson of American cinema--too good for 99 percent of it, so we just wait patiently until he finds...

Author: By By SOMAN S. chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fight Club | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...Boni-Saenz, we have not forgotten the "pain and uncertainty" of being the closet; that pain produces posters like "fuck you, I'm positive not poisonous" and "St. Sebastian: the first fag in the military." That pain motivates our anger in an unjust world. I hate that our posters embarrass some closeted people but a) don't assume other closet queens don't love them (I still have my poster of RuPaul giving the camera the finger from my middle school locker), b) don't assume closeted people don't engage in naughty sex acts themselves, and c) being closeted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...Porcellian: Not to embarrass this little modest club by bragging on their behalf, but the Porcellian has won the award ten years running of "most democratic use of an endowment that exceeds $100 million." Members of this club can look forward to secret lunchesand secret community service. Other activities involve allowing a homeless woman to beg outside their entrance because of a lack of a viable legal recourse...

Author: By Nicholas J. Pinto and Matthew N. Stoller, S | Title: Shopping for Final Clubs | 9/28/1999 | See Source »

...people you know having sex: you really don't want to be there. The package is filled with creamy pictures of Streisand and husband James Brolin--including Streisand in her wedding dress, for God's sake. The disc itself is a sequence of squishy love songs that would embarrass Lionel Richie. Hard to believe that someone who could perpetrate this once had taste. Or sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Love Like Ours | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...days before Sisler started, Bruno took him to lunch. He then asked a question that had somehow not occurred to him before: How old are you, anyway? Bruno was floored by the answer. Don't tell anyone, the bank chief warned. Sisler's youth could embarrass co-workers and, worse, anger Bergen's board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a Man of 25 Claim Age Bias? | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

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