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...Piano Teacher stirs up a tasty poison porridge of lusts and hatreds between a precocious pianist (Benoît Magimel) and his stern tutor (Isabelle Huppert); in chic, lurid images it suggests that teachers, perhaps all adults, try to express and exorcise their frustrations by dominating their charges. In coarser hands, this tale of obsession and self-mutilation could be ludicrous from the start; in these hands it is goofy only toward the end, when the sadistic teacher becomes the terrified victim. But Huppert, the cinema's most dauntingly intelligent actress, keeps luring the viewer back into her character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canned Heat | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

Firing Line was conceived in the ambition that TV could elevate its audience, and Buckley survives as a kind of monument to that goal. He will continue to write books and his popular newspaper column, in which he no doubt will stand against the coarser currents of popular culture. When the Firing Line taping was through last week, and after champagne had been served, Ted Koppel interviewed Buckley for Nightline. At the end, Koppel said, "Mr. Buckley, we have 10 seconds left. Could you sum up in 10 seconds?" Said Buckley simply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Quiet on the Firing Line: William F. Buckley Jr. | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...George Abbott adapted from John Cecil Holm's work Hobby Horses, was written for the more indulgent audiences of 58 years ago. Perhaps its cheery view of compulsive gambling, drinking until passing out, male dominance and spousal abuse seemed innocuous then; it is repellent today. The performances are even coarser. While the second half is at least less soporific than the first, there's not a moment of believable emotion or realistic behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Men in A Hearse | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

According to West, Blacks today aredemonstrating a different kind of anger: "rawrage--coarser, less open for dialogue" thanprevious Black resistance to societaldehumanization...

Author: By Alice S. Chen, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Negative Images Hurt Blacks | 10/29/1992 | See Source »

...Kennedy lives under the rule of a peculiar metaphysic. He had to soldier on in the messy world after Camelot floated away into memory. Unlike his brothers, extinguished in their prime, Teddy would get older and coarser and lose some of the boyo's flashing charm. He would make mistakes. And -- something that did not happen in Camelot -- he would pay for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble With Teddy | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

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