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...mire of sentimentality and bombast. From Peggy' liner notes: "This classical mythical image of 'enlightenment' ironically mirrored the supposed death of the world through the Greenhouse Effect. It was a beautiful and absurd double-edged sword. This enormous Mother Earth was standing at the very edge of the highest cliff of Infinity--and was about to leap off...I had to make this record about the crazy situation...

Author: By Jordan Ellenberg, | Title: New Music | 11/5/1992 | See Source »

...Cliff Hittner, a senior at Northeastern University who volunteered in the stretch drive of the Republican campaign, echoed Stimmons' disbelief...

Author: By Emily J. Tsai, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Patriotic Pomp Can't Disguise Gloom | 11/4/1992 | See Source »

...Bear suggests he is less an auteur than an explorer. And one with an imperialist bent: he pumps this intimate memoir into a David Lean-size epic. But once Annaud locks his movie in the dark bedroom, he finds metaphors of gesture for convulsive passions; he creates cliff-hanging drama from each shift of the girl's whim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saigon, Mon Amour | 11/2/1992 | See Source »

...plot thickens with a few more characters: Add one brooding bartender (Cliff Gorman) who hates Fabian but agrees to loan him $12,000 the day before the big event (hint, hint?), the bartender's wife (Jessica Lange) who loves Fabian and a bookie who likes Fabian but will kill him if he reneges on his loan (a harbinger...

Author: By Dvora Inwood, | Title: Lights Out | 10/29/1992 | See Source »

...family and his business. He's also conducting an affair with Helen (Jessica Lange), a waitress in the bar where he (and half of low- life New York) spends far too much time. This is not too smart either, for she is married to its manager, Phil (Cliff Gorman) -- short-tempered, mean- minded and, like Boom Boom, a man not to be trifled with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Songs of A Street Hustler | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

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