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Down 2-0, the team had had every reason to self destruct, to run around the field launching desperation shots as the minutes ticked by, but it didn't. Harvard stayed true to its game plan and found its winning form in time for an unlikely victory...

Author: By Shira A. Springer, | Title: Hubristic Terriers Get Just Desserts at Ohiri | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

Moreover, the Dole campaign continues to self-destruct. Even worse than taking a tumble, which resulted in pictures of the candidate helpless on the ground, and referring to the "Brooklyn Dodgers" (who moved to Los Angeles almost 40 years ago), Dole last week let Clinton win the endorsement of the nation's largest police union virtually by default...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: THE AD WARS TURN NASTY | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

...literally a pivotal role for Murphy. At one moment, he is playing Sherman Klump as a full and sympathetic character, a performance where others might have relied on the novelty of girth. A splitsecond later he turns around and goes back to his old tricks until they self-destruct. The now-tired, brazen "Beverly Hills Cop"-type character of old--outrageous and obnoxious arrogance, hilarious, often vulgar one-liners--is exaggerated and mocked in the form of the unrepentant, vaguely evil Buddy Love...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: Murphy as Jeckyll, Hyde, and Their Randy Grandma | 7/16/1996 | See Source »

...prohibition. "The Chinese have told us flat out that they'll give up nukes before they give up antipersonnel mines," says a senior State Department negotiator. But the conference did establish new guidelines, under which freshly laid mines must contain enough metal to be detected and would eventually self-destruct. There is a nine-year grace period--if grace is the word--before the new restrictions become mandatory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAND MINES: CHEAP, DEADLY AND CRUEL | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

...Dead Parents Society. The story doesn't advance; it just piles up, like a multiple-car wreck. And its whimsy is spiked with way too much spite. In this nightmare replay of Toy Story, everything is demolished: a pretty old home, a local mall, an innocent town. It's destruct-o-rama, kids! Fun for the whole dysfunctional family! Because it exploits children's weakness for noise, clutter and anarchy, Jumanji is a perfect Christmas gift--for Bob Dole. Let's see if the Movie Morals Monitor goes after a PG film that really deserves a righteous swat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: TOY SCARY | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

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