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...same thing applies to their reflections on such matters as artificial intelligence, alternative realities and the space-time continuum. You feel they have at least read the better magazine articles on these topics--enough to provide a little more subtext than we expect to find in enterprises like The Matrix. Besides, there's real wit in their presentation of the Zionist oracle (who turns out to be a motherly black lady baking cookies in an old-fashioned kitchen), and real sexiness in Carrie-Anne Moss as super-buff Trinity, leading Neo to his destiny. Given a budget that encourages their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dreaming by Numbers | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...noted that without an historical context, the recent surge of extremist attacks on abortion clinics across the country seems to be an aberration, when in fact the violence of the 1990s is part of a "historical continuum of rightwing thought...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Author Criticizes 'Contradictions' Of Abortion-Opponent Extremists | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...part of this continuum, Mason explained how in 1975 the Human Life Review--a well-known anti-abortion publication--admitted there was a difference between abortion and murder...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Author Criticizes 'Contradictions' Of Abortion-Opponent Extremists | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

Although a fetus may look different from a human adult, so do newborn infants, toddlers, adolescents and the elderly. Human growth and development occur along a continuum, not in fully distinct and separate stages. Because there is no significant developmental change in the fetus from one day to the next, any point chosen for the termination of its life is necessarily arbitrary. Such scientific facts indicate that a fetus is entitled to the same Constitutional protection afforded to a newborn infant, from whom the fetus is separated in age by less than nine months of development...

Author: By Robert J. Ortiz, | Title: Abortion Question is Not Merely a Religious Debate | 2/9/1999 | See Source »

...getting a bigger hand during the State of the Union than the "U.S.A." savings idea did or that 1955 Dave Garroway 10-lb. microphone Senator Byrd likes to wear. After 228 consecutive shows that were wholly or mostly Monica, last year feels like a rip in the space-time continuum, a historical skid as inexplicable as the election of 1876 or the hairstyle you wore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of Living Foolishly | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

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