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...Dennis Potter?s miniseries masterpiece, a novelist, chained to his hospital bed with a grotesquely disfiguring skin disease, plots revenge on all those who have loved him not quite enough. I?d call it, with Krzysztof Kieslowski?s ?Decalog,? the great film of the 80s. Now it?s available on DVD, with all the usual add-ons, and with Michael Gambon?s searing central performance intact. A must-buy: your intellectual life is incomplete without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lord of the Feeling: The Return of the Feelies | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

...Decalog Rolling. In Escanaba, Mich., three teen-agers broke into a school, stole $71, embarked on a spending spree by going to an advanced-price movie, swiftly returned the remaining money after seeing The Ten Commandments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 2, 1958 | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...alphabet, decided Artist Katz, should be the main theme of his synagog murals because some of its letters are also names for things. Artist Katz painted the Decalog as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Orthodox Mural | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

Fresh from the hands of Ferdinand Pecora and his young legalites, the original bill was a dogmatic double decalog for brokers, bankers and businessmen. The bill finally enacted still bristled with penalties, liabilities and thou-shalt-nots, but many of its cutting edges had been removed. No longer is a banker both a broker and dealer by definition. No longer is a bank forbidden to loan on sound but unlisted local securities. The odd-lot business and arbitrage are not annihilated by loose language. Even the much disputed margin requirements (45% for a starter) may be altered by the Federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Law at Last | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...Decalog has two?Remember Sabbath, Honor Parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Again, Ding | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

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