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...Celtics: The local basketball team did abandon its historic home last year. So going to see a game isn't quite as neat as it was when the Celtics played on the parquet floor at the Boston Garden. But if you're a sports fan, your four-year tenure in the Boston area won't be complete without a trip to see Larry Bird's team...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: What to Do at Harvard Until the Year 2000 | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...even a dead baby--but who cares, really? Apparently not the makers of the much-heralded "Trainspotting," who give us a rock'n'roll video of a movie whose wall-to-wall brogues and stretches of humor gloriously fall short of hopes for relentlessly hip status. It may look neat for a while--we've all been waiting for the Scottish "Kids," haven't we?--but the tiresome unreality of its "brutal reality" becomes maddening as the film's soundtrack pounds...

Author: By Nicholas R. Rapold, | Title: New Film: It's Square to Be Hip | 7/23/1996 | See Source »

...neat stunt--one of the scenes that make Eraser, like The Rock, a medium-high entry in the action genre. Briskly directed by Charles Russell, Eraser seems a near-photostat of Mission Impossible (the break-in of a secretive Washington-area facility to use a computer, the duplicitous father figure who must be killed) but with more brio. It also boasts some of the genre's standard idiocies. The script, by Tony Puryear, Walon Green and Michael S. Chernuchin, dreams up a new era of hand-held weaponry: a heat-seeking assault rifle. But the bad guys can't shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ARNOLD, BACK TO BASICS | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

...neglected child parked in front of the tube. When its stupid pieties don't work in real life, he embraces its other method of problem solving: violence. Hard even for Carrey to riff under that weight; his director, Ben Stiller, is more awed than helpful. Aiming, perhaps, for a neat double helix of black humor and prankishness, they've ended up with a pretty ugly granny knot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: TWISTED WIRE: CABLE GUY IS AS CONTORTED AS A JIM CARREY FACE | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

...says he is unsure of what he wants to do after rowing, but the believes this experience will influence his career goals. Though business or law school have both crossed his mind, he says, "It would be really neat to coach internationally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Choosing a Career | 6/5/1996 | See Source »

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