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...keep the demons out, or in. And when the pursed mouth opens, it speaks, in a barrelly bass, of dreadful sins and Old Testament vengeance. Karl is a slow-witted killer--he murdered his mother and her lover when he was 12--with the visage of a fallen angel in private, permanent pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: BILLY BOB...OLIVIER? | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...school dropout. Now he's going to be President. John Travolta, the only actor from Welcome Back, Kotter still getting good gigs, will play the role of the ambitious Southern Governor in the movie Primary Colors. Some may consider it a comedown from his latest role: that of an angel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 27, 1997 | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

...young girls right off the stage before the judging results even come in and yell at them in the bathroom about blowing it. I've even seen a mother yelling at her kid, and then the child wins the pageant. All of a sudden the child becomes a little angel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAYING AT PAGEANTS | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

...pitch. When you don't know how long you have, the simple words "I am" are enough to remind you of the unbearable lightness of being. With the past tense the problem is that you catch yourself saying, "I was..." and feel the tip of the wing of the angel of death. But the trickiest form of speech by far is the future. One of the first things lost to real illness isn't alertness or vigor. It's the simple pleasure of saying, in full confidence, "I will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIDS: HOPE WITH AN ASTERISK | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...woman--dazzling, enveloping, with a vastness that held all their dreams. In such a place, just before World War II, the Hungarian aristocrat Count Laszlo de Almasy finds his ideal desert woman and follows her to hell. He then lives, just barely, to tell the tale to a ministering angel (Juliette Binoche) who can give him what he needs: not absolution but understanding. The lovers are Ralph Fiennes--all coiled sexiness, threat shrouded in hauteur--and Kristin Scott Thomas, who has the gift of making intelligence erotic; they come together in a dance of doom that is abrasive, mysterious, powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE BEST CINEMA OF 1996 | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

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