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...Mohammad is only a burden. He wants to get married again and fears that his fiance's family will not accept a blind child as part of the dowry. He exiles the boy, then retrieves him in a journey that sends them tumbling through violent rapids toward a fatal climax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Visions of the Blind | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...next day the filmmakers' guerrilla-marketing tactics proved more successful: the audience that turned up to watch the movie nearly filled the dank screening room at No Dance. After a few promising minutes, though, SMTA!!! became a mess of dull, endless, off-color jokes. By the movie's climax, about a third of the audience had left, and those remaining (family? friends? people who were sexually probed by aliens?) weren't laughing. In the end, Crowley didn't win the award for best picture or best director. But the aliens did get the nod for "Best Guerrilla Marketing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everyone's A Star.Com | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

Some wise soul in the wing of Harvard's sprawling bureaucracy responsible for scheduling vacations seems to have learned this lesson--this year's spring break corresponds almost perfectly with the climax of the NCAA tournament. Please, watch college basketball over the break--the continued welfare of our nation may well depend...

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: March Madness and Democracy | 3/22/2000 | See Source »

...locus, little else about it is personal or simple. A billion Roman Catholics and innumerable other Christians will follow his every encounter in the footsteps of their Saviour. Many Jews will cautiously applaud what Aharon Lopez, Israel's ambassador to the Holy See, calls "with all due respect...the climax" of recent Catholic-Jewish amity. That's the upside. The downside? It will be a security nightmare and a diplomatic high-wire act. Says Israeli police official David Tsur: "It touches all the nerves we can think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Pilgrimage | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...research neurologist who can repair brain damage and bad attitudes with a computer and molecular smart bombs. An ingenious bio-tech love triangle ensues, as does the hunt for a sadistic killer with an acetylene torch. Then it's back to the top of Lady Liberty for the climax, a breakneck update of the finale to Hitchcock's 1942 tingler, Saboteur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Slow Burning | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

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