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...film stars Alec Baldwin as Doc McCoy, a seasoned hitman, and Kim Basinger as wife and partner-in-crime, Carol. We meet the duo coolly clad with dark shades, shooting targets in the desert, cavalierly zipping away in their white convertible to take on a new contract. The job is the get a convict out of prison and fly him back to Mexico. Doc is betrayed by Rudy (Michael Madsen), who leaves him stranded after the police are called on to the scene. Carol seeks the help of Benyon (James Woods),and offers Doc's services in return...

Author: By Deborah E . kopald, | Title: High Camp | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

...blaming one another for last month's attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan. Harding is determined to skate -- and by braving the court with her case has made sure that the U.S. team remains Harding and Kerrigan. Now, sports officials are looking for ways to have the star-crossed duo practice separately until the women's figure-skating competition begins next week. Otherwise, the efforts of other athletes competing in more decorous endeavors will be overshadowed as the public and the media hunger for a catfight. Notwithstanding the blades on ice, the skate-off will be much more polite. Nevertheless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: With Blades Drawn: Kerrigan and Harding | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

...were primitive affairs, capable of reproducing notes but little else; much depended on the Pianola's operator, who manipulated knobs and levers and pumped a foot bellows to make the contraption work. Later player pianos put the mechanism inside the instrument, and more sophisticated "reproducing rolls," manufactured by the Duo-Art and Welte companies, were able to approximate nuances like dynamics and tempo shadings as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gershwin, By George | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

...wizard's brew from the magical duo Dead Can Dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

Perry and Gerrard decided to call their duo Dead Can Dance when they saw a ritual mask from New Guinea. Says Perry: "The mask, though once a living part of a tree, is dead. Nevertheless, it has, through the artistry of its maker, been imbued with a life force of its own." Into the Labyrinth does not always carry so powerful a thrust, but its exotic elements fuse and cast a spell of breathless gravity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magic From a Wizard's Brew | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

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