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...this rather trite dichotomy does give scope for the film's most redeeming quality: the cinematography. Director of photography Jonathan Cornick captures straight-laced Puritanism in idyllic shots awash with scullers, clapboard and steeples straight from an Eakins canvas. Dramatic cliffs and dense forests redolent of Bierstadt represent America's noble savagery. Happily, such arresting backdrops tend to distract the audience from the action...
...horrifying moment in an unfinished saga. Shortly after officials in Moscow announced that the Czar had been shot (there was no immediate mention of his family), rumors arose that some or even all of the royals had managed to escape. In the 1920s, Europe and America were almost awash with fraudulent Romanov wannabes, several of them demanding access to a huge fortune that Nicholas had allegedly secreted abroad...
...murder trial of O.J. Simpson was once again awash in the racial animus of former L.A.P.D. detective Mark Fuhrman. A series of witnesses vividly testified before the jury about the detective's vocal hatred of blacks and his repeated use of the epithet nigger. Fuhrman was dramatically dragooned back into the courtroom, where (with the jury absent) he invoked his privilege against self-incrimination when asked about his truthfulness and the possible planting of evidence in the case. At the behest of the prosecution, an appeals court reversed a ruling issued by Judge Lance Ito that would have allowed...
...chemicals' only target was supposed to be a tiny structure called the hypothalamus, buried deep in the brain, which is the seat for sexual drive and other urges, such as appetite and aggression. Recent research, however, has shown that the entire brain, including the thought-processing cortex, is awash in sex hormones, even before birth. The larger amounts of testosterone produced by males may predispose men's brains toward greater specialization of the two hemispheres...
...gustibus non est disputandum was the way the ancient Romans put it: there is no point arguing about matters of taste. But that was easy for the Romans to say; they -- and their children -- weren't awash in a tide of explicit films, TV programs and recorded music. We are. And the consequences of this condition -- even the question whether there are any consequences -- have spurred arguments that grow more intense as mass entertainment becomes more pervasive. In the aftermath of Bob Dole's latest attack on Hollywood, TIME asked some prominent people who produce or comment on the arts...