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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lesson 3: In a crisis, dignity can be a powerful motivator. Never let 'em see you retch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ah, the Smell of Tear Gas in the Morning... | 12/7/1999 | See Source »

...every way. 4. Bridge On the River Kwai (1957). Too much Lean? Never. 5. The Third Man (1949). Orson Welles gets best entrance -- but you knew that. What puts this film over the top is the final, parting shot of Joseph Cotten on the road. Sooo good, you retch a little. 6. Foreign Correspondent (1940). Vintage controlled Hitchcock: clean lines, great plot and arresting images like the oft-copied black umbrella scene. 7. Laura (1944). Queen of the noirs. Don't get me started on Gene Tierney. 8. Cool Hand Luke (1967). It is impossible to see this movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Gathering of Potatoes | 6/19/1998 | See Source »

Like Ehrenreich, I want to "retire to the bathroom and retch" when I see the mysterious and the galactic reduced to trashy baubles. ERVIN S. STOCKWELL Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 15, 1997 | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

...close approach to another one, we were informed that "Sojourner and Barnacle Bill are holding hands." Kind of made you look at the vast red deserts of the two-mooned planet and want to go "Coochy-coochy-coo!" Or, depending on your sensibilities, retire to the bathroom and retch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT A CUTE UNIVERSE YOU HAVE! | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

...admit, my initial reaction to the news that "a teary-eyed" David L. Hanselman '94-'95 had announced his intention not to seek a second term as Undergraduate Council president was an overwhelming desire to retch...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: All Choked Up | 1/13/1995 | See Source »

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