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The more important revelations were implicit. After 15 years in the white-hot limelight, Diana's perfect p.r. pitch has become her best weapon. From the melancholy kohl-rimmed eyes to the hesitant body language, from the lack of spite (she'll take "half" the responsibility for the split) to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOW ON TV: DIANA, GODDESS OF THE HAUNT | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

Two years ago, the Hughes brothers, Allen and Albert, made Menace II Society, a violent melodrama whose film-school flash won kudos. Last year's top novice was Kevin Smith, with his clever, scratchy comedy Clerks. Now these twentysomething phenoms are flouting the sophomore slump--the Hugheses with the epic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ELEGY FOR DEGENERATION X | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

Society's sense of right and wrong has become so distorted that a 14-year-old South African runner tested postive twice for steroid use and was suspended from competition for four years. You can add to the South African case the names of Ben Johnson, Brian Bosworth, Lyle Alzado...

Author: By Shira A. Springer, | Title: Sports' Drug Problem Is No Secret | 11/2/1995 | See Source »

Like all of Hollywood's self-satires, Get Shorty understands that movie people are, by nature and calling, melodramatists, with an unfortunate tendency to get self-love, self-loathing and self-pity all mixed up. Screenwriter Scott Frank and director Barry Sonnenfeld also understand that the proper response to all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: TRAVOLTA FEVER | 10/16/1995 | See Source »

"It's a round world," says a calm, philosophical Alfonse D'Amato, "and every thing comes back. So treat people the way you want to be treated." The New York Senator is performing for a journalist in his Washington office. He's playing the New D'Amato--the same gracious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATTACK OF THE KILLER D'AMATO | 9/11/1995 | See Source »

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