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...Metropolitan, released in 1990, he created an engaging circle of Manhattan debs and preppies, enthralled by their own obsolescence. In Barcelona, on a larger canvas, Stillman paints a sympathetic portrait of two Americans -- Ted (Taylor Nichols), a genteel businessman, and his snarkier cousin, Fred (Chris Eigeman), a naval officer -- adrift in Spain during what the film, with beguiling pomposity, calls "the last decade of the cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: The Little Movies That Could | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...such explosions have become spectator events. In theory, this rush of instantaneous sightings should be a boon to human understanding; the more we notice, the wiser we become. In practice, such cascades of images can prove deracinating. The mind is cut adrift by what the eyes provide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking At Cataclysms | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

HAITI: A Foreign Policy Adrift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Contents Page | 7/18/1994 | See Source »

Today all the hopes, anxieties and contradictions of Russia's fumbling transition from communist monolith to Western-style free market are reflected in this city of 9 million. The crumbling of communism has rendered it a city adrift -- a metropolis that has lost its sense of historic mission and is struggling to find a new identity worthy of its former grandeur. Moscow finds itself seized by a debilitating sort of urban schizophrenia. On one hand, a small but highly visible minority of residents are enjoying the rich possibilities of upheaval. "Life has never been more exciting in this city!" gushes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow: City On Edge | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

Buffeted by change, the once proud capital seems adrift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Contents Page | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

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