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...There's a third category - the gifts to lesser, later movies. The blind butler Jamessir Bensonmum in "Murder by Death." The mummified chief clerk in "Kafka." Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars," eyes glittering with wisdom, salvaging that tortured Lucas dialogue. Would there be a "Phantom Menace" without Guinness's saving injection of class in the first installment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sir Alec Guinness, 1914-2000 | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

...been a long night - at 7:30 a.m., when I was on break, Larry King was already in the lobby demanding "just one New York Times" from a scared desk clerk. Time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Politics Junkie: Republicans Make Peace, Talk War | 8/1/2000 | See Source »

Sharpe had come to the motel asking to rent a room, but the clerk referred him to a nearby motel because there was no space available...

Author: By Joshua E. Gewolb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former HMS Instructor Suspected of Murder | 7/21/2000 | See Source »

...tracks how many Americans get new names. But a clerk estimates that judges in our county grant several hundred name changes a year--in cases of divorce, marriage, adoption, immigration, even a sex-change operation. Emily had no legal basis for shedding her old identity, but she had a host of emotional needs. Did I mention that the i showed up after our third child was born? Here's my theory: when we wouldn't let Emily name the baby boy Ringo, she decided to rename herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Changing Names | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

...avoid parking any critically psychotic patients in jail, Gwen Turner, a retired chancery clerk and advocate for the mentally ill, proposed five years ago turning an empty downtown building into a crisis center where Natchez Regional Hospital doctors could volunteer to treat these patients. (The regional hospital won't accept them.) But she found little interest in her proposal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Natchez, Miss.: The Chief and His Ward | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

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