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This is not to say that her performance is never affecting. In the second act, after family conflicts boil over into a splendid conflagration, her Moya is particularly heart-wrenching as she minimizes her husband's peccadilloes and as she finally breaks down under her weight of grief. But even when she jerks tears from the audience, her performance seems incongruous...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Murphy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Family Ties: Acting Highlights 'Red Roses' | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

Perhaps Dartboard just misses New York these days. We can't wait until Thanksgiving to take a breather and plunge into the cradle of neurotic civilization. But at least this weekend we can pretend, as we vicariously screw up personal relationships, kvetch to shrinks, boil lobsters and just generally make the world a crazier place...

Author: By Ben Lebwohl, | Title: NEUROSES, NEW YORK STYLE | 10/30/1997 | See Source »

...panache, but little musical maturity. This contributes to the highly energetic and raw character of their music. The opening track, "Go For a Ride," starts unapologetically. A cacophonic barrage of whining guitar and organ introduces the song. The jubilant first verse orders the chaos, while the dissonant organ chords boil underneath, creating harmonic tension. This structure complements and enhances the forceful vocals and hard-hitting drums that motor this three-minute ditty to its exhausted...

Author: By John T. Reuland, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Distortion + Adolescent Lyrics = Ups and Downs | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

...figure out what it can accept as a binding target--and sell to the Congress and industry--before a preliminary conference in Bonn later this month. Members of an interagency task force are "meeting every day," says Kathleen McGinty, head of the Council on Environmental Quality, trying to boil the sticky economics and politics down to two or three options...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORECAST: HEAT WAVE | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

Perhaps because of this, Malick's colleagues tend to adopt a cheerfully reassuring tone when answering reporters' questions, which inevitably boil down to more polite versions of, Isn't he a bit, well, loony? "He's very mysterious, very private, but it's not like he's crazy. He's a lovely and charming man who just wants to keep things to himself," says Laura Ziskin, president of Fox 2000, the division of 20th Century Fox that is financing The Thin Red Line's $50 million to $60 million budget. "He's fun. He's not reclusive or dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRENCE MALICK: HIS OWN SWEET TIME | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

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