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...worth saving? Dour sci-fi satire always has this message: I have seen the future, and it sucks. In this teeming hellhole (lots of clatter and clutter), madmen get the best lines, and a heroic time traveler hardly stands a chance. Intent on both dazzling and punishing the viewer, Gilliam gets lost in creepy spectacle and plenty of old film clips (notably Vertigo). But at the sight of three giraffes crossing a city bridge, you'll think of a more recent movie. A bad one. In its frantic mix of chaos, carnage and zoo animals, 12 Monkeys is Jumanji...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: BACK TO THE BLEAK FUTURE | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

...whimsy is spiked with way too much spite. In this nightmare replay of Toy Story, everything is demolished: a pretty old home, a local mall, an innocent town. It's destruct-o-rama, kids! Fun for the whole dysfunctional family! Because it exploits children's weakness for noise, clutter and anarchy, Jumanji is a perfect Christmas gift--for Bob Dole. Let's see if the Movie Morals Monitor goes after a PG film that really deserves a righteous swat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: TOY SCARY | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

...then there are the more personal conflicts that clutter American history in which Harvard played a role. Of all that I'm aware of, one in particular leaps to mind. On June 26, 1833, President Andrew Jackson, who had been bed-ridden due to severe hemorrhaging only two days earlier, hobbled out of bed to receive the honorary degree "Doctor of Laws" from Harvard. An extremely frustrated former-president and newly instated University overseer John Quincy Adams wrote that as "an affectionate child of our Alma Mater" he could not countenance "her disgrace in conferring her highest literary honors upon...

Author: By Eric M. Nelson, | Title: Harvard History 10a | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

...devolves its responsibilities to the states, local governments may not be big enough to take up the burden. The questions devolve to everyday life: I owe too much money, but if I didn't, I'd never live anything close to the American Dream, which only seems to clutter itself up with a wider range of requirements each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOO BIG OR NOT TOO BIG? | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

...means attempting to formulate foreign policy in this discussion. Public policy is far too complicated to explicate in a short essay. Furthermore, it seems that foreign policy only serves to obsfucate and clutter the principles of a situation. This editorial is also not meant to be the statement of a vainglorious 20-year-old, starry-eyed and dreaming about the glory of war. I understand, as William Sherman stated, that "war is hell" and that everybody loses. I understand that war is about dying, and I would be one of the first ones to be drafted. Finally, understanding that...

Author: By Joseph J. Geraci, | Title: A Lapse in Leadership | 8/15/1995 | See Source »

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