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Baseball fans watched with disdain and horror as their cherished sport was embroiled in an embarassing strike. Hockey fans may be in for the same two weeks from...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: The Joys of Sports | 9/23/1994 | See Source »

...times, her gawky, over-the-top performance is still heartfelt and honest, and the audience cheers her for it. There's more gravel in her baritone, but she is pitch-perfect and a mistress of timing. She can build a laugh into a roar by simply chewing. And her disdain is magnificent, contemplating a gift of "chocolate-covered peanuts -- unshelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Looking Amazingly Swell | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

That's why the Bells have been going Hollywood. Three weeks ago, the Walt Disney Co., whose chairman, Michael Eisner, had until recently seemed to disdain two-way TV, agreed to team up with Ameritech, BellSouth and Southwestern Bell to develop and distribute movies, games and other programs to home viewers. Not to be outdone, Hollywood dealmeister Michael Ovitz, who heads the powerful Creative Artists Agency, has reportedly been meeting with nynex, Bell Atlantic and Pacific Telesis to discuss the creation of a company of their own that would make and distribute films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lights! Camera! Dial Tone! | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

...heart, White is a Polish joke played on the French. For Kieslowski it can be seen as a declaration of both love and disdain for a foreign country and a language in which he works but which he does not quite understand. In White Karol could be Kieslowski: resourceful, isolated, powerless, homesick. And Dominique could be France: beautiful, haughty, unforgiving, irresistible. "After all she did," Karol says, "I still love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A Polish Joke Played on France | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

...woman rocker leading an otherwise all-male band, Chrissie Hynde has long been one of pop music's most fascinating and contradictory figures. Fond of skintight jeans, torn T shirts and excessive amounts of black eye shadow, she combines a punkish disdain for the world with an expressive, let's-get-it-on sexuality. As the songwriter and singer of the Pretenders, she manages to create buoyant, invigorating rock 'n' roll by weaving pop music's tunefulness with punk's aggressive energy. With pulsing, loping guitar work and a ragged- edged style that retains the sound of a great garage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Real Thing | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

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