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...those powers go with their strengths. Yes, you will add, but the Japanese keep telling us they're different. Indeed they do, and try to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy. But Americans, who start many of their sentences with the words "Americans . . .," may not find this so alien...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Oscar Wilde Knew About Japan | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

...summer just produces more predictable hits, mostly sequels. "Hollywood is front loading the summer with blockbuster sequel products," notes Martin Grove, film analyst for the Hollywood Reporter, "which virtually guarantees that the early summer business will be strong." Lethal Weapon 3 leads the assault this weekend, , followed quickly by Alien 3 (May 22), the Red October sequel, Patriot Games (June 5) and Batman Returns (June 19), the last easily the season's most anticipated and expensive movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood Gets Hot | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

...realizes the importance of the "tattoo," the bond that ties the family together; but as he enters the alien realm of his mother and sister's lives, he slowly understands the concept of space. His sister sometimes hates his fraternal interference and his mother ignores his advice. Gradually, each character learns through the trails and tribulations which Leimbach brings home to us so sensitively, that familial relationships precede all others and that the one reliable source of support is the family...

Author: By Aparajita Ramakrishnan, | Title: Characters, Writing Style Make Leimbach's New Book Memorable: | 5/8/1992 | See Source »

...primary goal, though, is to make the pious and virtuous Madame de Tourvel (Jeanne Simpson) "betray everything she believes in." And achieve this goal he does, but he falls in love with Tourvel along the way. The forbidden "Lword," which he once shared with the Marquise, has become so alien to him that when he does feel it once again, he shuns it. He is so afraid of exposing his Achilles heel--his real personality--that he alienates his true love in order to salvage his ego. As the plot advances, the characters become enmeshed in a web of deceit...

Author: By Aparajita Ramakrishnan, | Title: Famed Tale of Deceit in the Ancien Regime Features Excellent Performances, Ambience | 5/1/1992 | See Source »

Marvelously harrowing. Last Rights has the voyeuristic magnetism of a horror film. You know it'll deliver a backhanded slap of terror, violence and shock, but you can't help looking. The album's first planned video, "Killing Game," culminates in two alien characters--whose veins are on the outside of their bodies and whose eyes are sewn shut--ripping each other's eyes open...

Author: By J.c. Herz, | Title: Skinny Puppy Howling at Your Door | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

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