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A decade later, the two boys most damaged by the torture--they've become cold professional killers, played by Billy Crudup and Ron Eldard--encounter Nokes in a bar, blow him away and blow us into yet another fictive mode, the improbable legal thriller. Here in Grisham country we discover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: CRIMES OF THE HEART | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

Here's a short, gritty novel whose elegant construction calls to mind the way Greg Louganis used to dive and Larry Bird and Kevin McHale used to work the back-door play. "Yes!" the amazed onlooker would realize, watching these masters. "That's how it's done!" Madison Smartt Bell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: STREET GAMES | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

While some of his stories do have a definite narrative line, others are complete nonsense. The majority of his work, as in the following excerpt from "The Object Lesson," is a combination of the two: "At twilight, however, no message had come from the asylum, so the others retired to...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, | Title: New Book Gives the Gorey Details | 10/24/1996 | See Source »

The supposedly triumphant field of science hasn't even scratched the surface of explaining all. It hasn't told us how life could have arisen out of a cold, dark nothing. What science did discover was that we utilize about 10% of our brain capacity and that fully 90% of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 21, 1996 | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

I tell this story to illustrate a larger point. To counter the arguments of those who suggest that Clinton is the pure, disingenuous politician, the ultimate vote-getting machine, you must understand Clinton's development as a person and a politician. For it is only by examining his past that...

Author: By Tom Cotton, | Title: Clinton's Politicking Is Sincere | 10/19/1996 | See Source »

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