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...chats with the young mother, the doctor flicks a cotton swab into the mouth of her infant son, collecting a small sample of mucus from inside his cheek. In the back room of his office, he inserts the sample into a machine, which extracts DNA from the mucus cells and compares it with the genetic material on a dime-size chip. Minutes later, a computer printer begins to spit out a list of the infant's genes. Fortunately, all but a few of the genes are labeled "normal." It is those few that the doctor discusses as he explains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KEYS TO THE KINGDOM | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

...begun! And look!" she continued, with a broad gesture, "your colleagues here are watching not the clash of those who would lead us into the 21st century, but a--a baseball game! I have to know," she said helplessly, as a tear coursed down her smooth cheek, "was it always like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAS IT ALWAYS LIKE THIS? | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

...about these villagers: they've all seen Riverdance; Bob Avian's choreography has the heavy-footed agility of that hit Irish dance show. The choral harmonies do have a vaulting magnificence, as 30 or so voices pump out Schonberg's anthems. But director Declan Donnellan (who, for his own Cheek by Jowl troupe, staged a superb As You Like It) can't make the drama sing. Guerre is big; it should have been grand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: THE BATTLE OF LONDON | 7/22/1996 | See Source »

...movie--Arnold's leaping out of an airplane and playing "follow that parachute"--features what looks like a very shoddy mixture of blue-screen work and frenzied, bumpy camera movement. Where welldone, innovative action sequences and stories marked earlier Arnold movies, new ones mistake audacity delivered almost tongue-in-cheek for real thrills. Yes, Arnold takes on an airplane one-on-one, but the situation is too implausible even for the most believing action fans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Eraser'? I don't even Know her! | 7/2/1996 | See Source »

...says with tongue in cheek, "I did suggest there was a speed bump in front of a beer joint that might have been more appropriate...

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, | Title: A Midwesterner In Harvard Yard | 6/5/1996 | See Source »

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