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...underworld, with a language all its own, was what helped hold together the short-attention-span oddities of his first two endeavors. Now, shocking devices foisted upon this movie's stultifyingly paced plot and Grier's well-intentioned yet boring performance seem instantly tired. At one point, the "sudden shoot" gimmick--witness Tim Roth's character in Reservoir Dogs, or Pulp Fiction's poor victim of Vincent Vega's gun and a bump in the road--seems downright offensive, suggesting a world where such cavalier violence on a woman is far more disturbing and sinister than Tarantino blindly intended...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: B-Movie Heroine Chic: Tarantino's Hyper-Hip Brew Potent No More | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

...paper, both matchups appear straightforward--but then again, so did Monday night's 57-53 loss at Dartmouth, which saw the Crimson shoot an unfortunate 33.3 percent from the field while getting outrebounded...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Basketball Hopes For Big Apple Recovery | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

...Digital Snapshots Cameras that shoot pixels, not film, made the leap from pricey novelty to low-cost alternative to 35 mm this year, as nearly every cameramaker worth its viewfinder released quality digital cameras in the $250-to-$1,000 range, and sales nearly doubled. Next up? Deeper price cuts, please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYBERTECH: THE BEST CYBERTECH OF 1997 | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

That year, Harvard saw its Early Action applicant pool shoot up by more than 1,000 applicants...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Admits 1,048 Students In Early Action | 12/16/1997 | See Source »

...capa" (bust their heads). Rizzo was as good as his word. A study for the U.S. Justice Department found that while individual Philadelphia police officers made no more arrests than New York City cops, during Rizzo's eight years as mayor they were 37 times as likely to shoot unarmed citizens fleeing the site of nonviolent crimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW COPS GO BAD | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

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