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From the Manhattan skyline to Woody driveling anxiety to his shrink, the first moments of Antz suggest a film destined to become another prototypical Woody Allen movie. Until Woody (now an ant named "Z") gets off the psychoanalyst's couch and walks into "The Colony." The makers of Antz seem particularly interested in demonstrating their ability to depict water and human movement, disregarding the fact that the plot must make some rather forced detours in order to accommodate these animated showpieces. Though the character of Allen as well as those of the other actors (voiced by Dan Akroyd, Anne Bancroft...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

Though Alanis has matured and found newtextures for her lyrics, a few minor changes mightmake her music even more effective. At times,SFIJ besieges the listener with a torrentof words. "The Couch," for example, is an overlongconfessional that exhausts rather than involves.Verbosity sometimes clouds her haunting, oftenstartlingly beautiful melodies. "Front Row" thefirst track, is a surprisingly insipid start tothe album. Trying to muster resentment, she offersus a long stream-of-consciousness account of lovegone wrong. Words pile on words as the standardchorus is layered with dense sub-vocals thatslowly collapse into indecipherable clamor. Thesong turns out to be a mish...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, | Title: You Oughta Know the softer side of ALANIS | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...hard to imagine a place more different from dreary Belgrade. In an eighth-floor apartment above New York City's Central Park West, Richard Holbrooke slumps into a soft couch in his book-lined study to recount his latest diplomatic adventure. Sipping a Diet Coke and fielding phone calls while he talks, Holbrooke is clearly a man wired by more than caffeine. Back from the Balkans fewer than three days--and with a fragile peace in hand--he is answering calls of congratulations and patching up some final diplomatic work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holbrooke's Next Mission | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

Still, the i Series, particularly the cheapest model, will give good value if you're slightly mobile and even mostly immobile, bound to a couch or just looking for a second PC to knock around the house with. Best news for consumers: IBM isn't the only PC maker that has identified the low-end laptop market. Let the lap wars begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Volks NoteBooks | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...World Series and the Couch Potato is in the zone. This time, he's going to play within himself. It's a long series, but anything can happen in seven games, so he's just going to take it one game at a time. But before the first pitch, there's couch time and, God willing, it will all work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Old Potato Game | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

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