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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Next to him was his diminutive mother Wanda, 80, who had not seen her son Ted in 15 years, and family lawyer Anthony Bisceglie. A few minutes before 8, the door opened and the alleged bomber finally strode in, wearing a white cable-knit sweater and a striped dress shirt. David reached for his mother's hand as his older brother, looking neither left nor right, walked past them straight to his chair and sat down with his back to them. If he knew they were there, he gave no sign. David sighed deeply, leaned over and whispered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Fits And Starts | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

...Taxin says that while she will readily admit she's from New York, she has had to modify her dress because the social code in Massachusetts is not entirely compatible with what she's used...

Author: By Ashley F. Waters, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Adjusting To Cambridge | 1/16/1998 | See Source »

...effect is stunning: a seven-year-old in lipstick and a borrowed pink dress. Anyway, the sight stuns the parents of the boy who makes his entrance so gaily bedecked. He is Ludovic (Georges du Fresne), a sweet child convinced he's a girl. No point in lecturing the lad; Ludo blithely pursues his obsession. Of a school chum, he says, "We're going to marry when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Short Takes: Ma Vie En Rose | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...fairy tale, so the enemy is, predictably enough, a white supremacist militia. Known as the Holnist Army, this mounted horde is meant to recall an army of Huns, but comes off looking like a collection of highly regimented hoboes (all of that matted facial hair, along with an uninspired dress code, doesn't help matters). The Holnists are led by one General Bethlehem (Will Patton), a ruthless former copy machine sales clerk who found his true calling in fascist leadership after nuclear war vaporized society. Because he knows five or six lines of Shakespeare and can paint a passable self...

Author: By Scott E. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kevin Costner Goes Postal: Result Is Goofy But Goodhearted | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

...drag. "Actress (lkki Haruka)" features fluid renderings of two head shots taken from popular Japanese trading cards of an adolescent female theater troupe. At the top of the image, a short-haired boyish actress smiles seductively at the viewer. Below we see the same woman dressed in a tuxedo jacket and bow tie, her hair coifed in a pompadour which would have made the young Sinatra proud. Yet apart from her obvious male dress, she appears somehow more feminine, wearing eye-liner, mascara, and maybe even lip gloss as the white-paper highlights of her icy smile suggest. Garnished with...

Author: By Scott Rothkopf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Breaking the Mold | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

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