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...here comes the fall's first big movie, and now we're in World Literature 101. Cart out all those Holy Grail legends stored in the attic of your memory and apply them to a four-handed love story. But the true lesson is more familiar: psychotic people are holy seers, tour guides into the nine circles of the urban soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Words Of One Syllabus | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...sand. Any attack now would only be partially successful at best and, U.S. officials fear, might lead Saddam to retaliate against Israel or the Kurds. As Bush admitted, it's hard to "certify" the locations "when you're burying component parts off in the desert somewhere, in somebody's attic or somebody's basement in downtown Baghdad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desert Storm Aftermath | 7/22/1991 | See Source »

Perhaps a childhood this idyllic could exist only in an aged writer's reverie -- in an attic stocked with antiques all the more precious to him because he alone realizes their value. The great gift of Pagnol's memoirs is to create a universal family out of what may have been his private fantasy. They capture the anecdotes of a Provence youth in a scrapbook that all can take delight in. This brace of films is a gift to moviegoers too. It might have fallen into their arms out of an impossibly sunny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reliving Impossible Dreams | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

...sound is clear, and the play features a well-chosen soundtrack of old jazz standards. The detailed split-level set--red floral couch, liquor bottles, a shelf of old board games--turns the Mather TV room into a good simulation of an old woman's living room and attic in Westchester County...

Author: By Elijah T. Siegler, | Title: Some Secrets Should Not be Told | 2/15/1991 | See Source »

...Family Secrets gives no indication that Prince has any talent as a writer or director. Here is the plot in a nutshell: Diane Casper (Daniela Raz), a 27-year-old photojournalist, visits her grandmother Theresa Stanski (Frances Maxime). While there, she finds rolls of old film in the attic, develops them and learns that years earlier her mother, Catherine Casper (Sheila McDonald), lied to Diane about her father...

Author: By Elijah T. Siegler, | Title: Some Secrets Should Not be Told | 2/15/1991 | See Source »

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