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...they can make marvels such as a flat-panel television screen that will roll like a scroll up your living-room wall). Plastic may not be as vilified now as it was in 1967, but it's still a stuff that people love and hate. Every time a grocery clerk asks, "Paper or plastic?," the great debate between old and new, natural and synthetic, biodegradable and not, silently unfolds in a shopper's breast in the instant it takes to decide on the answer...
...Bellofatto family, I am responding to the eulogy for Sean Sellers written by Bianca Jagger [NOTEBOOK, Feb. 15]. [Jagger described Sellers' execution for murder, stating that he suffered from a mental disorder.] Before murdering his parents, Sellers at the age of 16 killed Robert Bowers, a convenience-store clerk who wouldn't sell him beer. Sellers later murdered his own mother Vonda Bellofatto and his stepfather Paul Lee Bellofatto in their sleep. It was not until after Sellers' final bid for appeal was turned down by the state of Oklahoma and his capital-punishment sentence became inevitable that his legal...
JANE WULF, our new chief of reporters, joins us after rising from clerk to reporter chief during her 22 years at Sports Illustrated. Her first week here was a TIME trial of sorts: the magazine had to be updated at 5 a.m. Sunday with the news of King Hussein's death. "It made me think, 'Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore,'" says Wulf, who managed the ordeal gracefully. But then, with four children, she's used to being on 24-hour call...
...misery and suffering in its purest form--when people die, they die violently and horribly. Good is corrupted, and evil abounds. There is no redemption. There are no happy endings. It is an incredibly dark vision but one that is undoubtedly held be Walker, the former Tower Records clerk-turned-angst-ridden-screen- writer, who must have kept of a copy of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan handy when he sat down to write his first film, Seven, and his new one, 8MM. Both films share an incredibly bleak outlook of the human condition, and while these visions are certainly helped...
...investigation pulls him into the twisted underworld of hard-core pornography and bondage films. He soon discovers the hard way that it's a world that's easy to enter but not so easy to escape. As he's told by Max (Joaquin Phoenix), an intelligent porn store clerk who serves as the obligatory sidekick, "When you dance with the devil, the devil don't change. The devil changes...