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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...tries to combine the kind of subjective depth of confessional poetry with a kind of intellectual rigor which we associate with a less personal poetry," he said...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Alum Named Poet Laureate | 8/4/2000 | See Source »

...Memorabilia Marketplace and GOPShoppe compete for dollars with dueling stuffed elephants, gold jewelry, necklaces made of red, white and blue crazily flashing lights and Reagan mementos ($2,700 golf ball, anyone?). The less traditional Marketplace wins my vote by providing an onsite chiropractor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ronald Reagan's Golf Balls? Step Right Up! | 8/1/2000 | See Source »

...Mastercard that promise rebates of 1% to 5% on gas and gas-station purchases. Considering most of the cards have no annual fees, it's not a bad deal--unless you carry a balance. With APR rates as high as 24.4%, those who don't pay promptly will get less mileage out of their dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Jul. 31, 2000 | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

...Daniel Auteuil) is a carnival knife thrower down on his luck. She (Vanessa Paradis, a.k.a. Mrs. Johnny Depp) is a waif who has permitted too many penetrations of a seemingly less lethal sort. And here they are, strangers on a bridge, contemplating suicide. She takes the plunge. He rescues her. Miraculously, their luck changes. And then, not so miraculously, changes again. This is a tangy frappe of a movie--preposterously comic, deliriously romantic, outrageously stylish in black-and-white. But in its cockeyed way it has some interesting things to say about the waywardness of chance and, in one weird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Girl on the Bridge | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

...budget must be less than the price of a jumbo popcorn bag at the plex. The format is simple: just a fast-talking man (host Ed Grant) and his film clips. But this celebration of "everything from high art to low trash and back again" is the most eclectic and useful movie show on TV. Grant has spotlighted unsung or unseen European and Asian directors, silent classics, favorite divas (e.g., Tuesday Weld) and surreal rarities (a moon-walking midget on the Venezuelan variety show Sensationalissimo!). Grant also pays tribute to "deceased artistes" you might not be aware had died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Media Fun House, | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

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