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...media than they were of Baily). The film also makes good use of its claustrophobic setting--the interior of a stuffy old natural history museum. A dinosaur skeleton occupies a central position throughout the movie, lending an eerie atmosphere of impending doom to the events Gavras films through its bare ribs. Especially compelling are the images of television screens broadcasting garishly amid the flotsam and jetsam of American history, which consist primarily of extinct or endangered animals and routed indigenous peoples...

Author: By Scott E. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: `Mad City' Plays Up Media Paranoia | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...should call for stricter government enforcement of existing labor and pesticide regulations. Nevertheless, the grape workers' plight as a union cause celebre should not override the inconsistency in the staff's logic that if universally applied would leave our tables bare...

Author: By Adam J. Levitan, | Title: Palettes Not Politics | 11/4/1997 | See Source »

...secret of his longevity rests in his musical roots. He cut his teeth in the early 1980s, when rap was still largely playful entertainment--an intricate mix of bare rhythms, verbal acrobatics and sharp humor. As rap's agenda grew more urgent--the thundering political nationalism of Public Enemy, the corrosive social critiques of gangsta rappers like N.W.A.--LL continued to build his career on the genre's original foundations. The approach worked. Since his first record, I Need A Beat, appeared in 1984, five of his subsequent seven albums have gone platinum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: STILL KNOCKIN' THEM OUT | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

Balancing ample sleep, a healthy social life and the bare minimum of studying leaves a self-described slacker like Lot the master of his own schedule...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis and Andrew K. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: TRUE CONFESSIONS OF A HARVARD SLACKER | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

...with graceful archways and lovely fountains. The interior of the Capulet home is dominated, with striking appropriateness, by a large mural of the tumultuous history of the family. Plenty of luminous stars create a suitably romantic atmosphere for the balcony scene, forming a stark contrast to the gloomy, eerily bare family crypt where the drama closes...

Author: By Christiana Briggs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wherefore Art My Choreographer? | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

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