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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nevertheless, feminists and misandrist critics often paint Bond as a heartless womanizer. This may be true, but it doesn't give Bond girls nearly enough credit. While most women in Bond films are, so to speak, "charmed" at least once by Bond, they are by no means undiscriminating. For instance, upon Bond's arrival at an Afghanistan construction site in World, a foreman, terse with unrequited affection, tells him that Christmas Jones (Denise Richards), a shapely airhead-cum-nuclear physicist, is a lesbian. Suffice to say, Bond proves the unlucky foreman wrong...

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: Always an Icon, A Bond in the '90s | 11/23/1999 | See Source »

...today's downtown galleries. Yet nowhere is the primal battle pitted so bluntly as in the opening salvos on the top two floors of the show. First is Pollock's Number 27 (1950), its swooping marks scraping away the recognizable shapes of the world, implying in the skeins of paint a web of pure energy, limitless and deep. Its yellows and pinks, its muted greens and blacks are autumnal; a pure buzz of nature's prodigious, generative force. And then, just one floor below, is this: a towering partition plastered with Warhol's hot pink and green wallpaper covered with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Creative Chaos | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

What I do hope to offer is empathy. Today, make sure to smile extra big to the person in your life who smokes. Sit with them at lunch, walk to class together or plan to paint the town (what there is of one) in New Haven. Show you care. These are things we should be doing every day, of course, but perhaps today they can make an extra difference and show smokers what a day without nicotine can be like...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: A Smoker's Day of Reckoning | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

Karon Daniel, the interim director of public relations at Morris Brown, wrote that the report "paint[s] a misleading picture and unduly alarms parents...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Safer Than Yale, New Study Shows | 11/16/1999 | See Source »

Ryan says it is important to get independent information that is neither from companies nor from anti-sweatshop activists. He says he doesn't know whether to believe the companies, who say working conditions are good, or the students, who paint a darker picture...

Author: By Gregory S. Krauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tracing the Source of Apparel | 11/16/1999 | See Source »

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