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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know people who were born on third base and either got picked off or couldn't find home plate with a map. By contrast, leading Republican candidate George W. Bush [CAMPAIGN 2000, June 21] has made the most of his privileged situation. In addition, he can relate to the problems of small businessmen and those who have battled the bottle. He also takes the Bible seriously and has had executive experience as a general partner of the Texas Rangers and as Texas Governor. I think the W stands for winner. ROBERT B. BOOTH Madison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 12, 1999 | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...Berlin all over again, but it isn?t Bosnia either. Russian reinforcements began arriving in Kosovo Tuesday after a weekend standoff with NATO ?- which led to the Russians' being denied overflight rights by Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine ?- were settled. Although Moscow?s demands for more freewheeling deployment rights were denied for fear of creating a partition along the lines of postwar Germany, the Russians aren?t going to Kosovo as evenhanded mediators. "Unlike in Bosnia, where they were part of a neutral peacekeeping force under coordinated command, they?re making no bones about the fact that their mission in Kosovo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Russians Headed to Kosovo After Pact | 7/6/1999 | See Source »

...produced an adored child, genuine mutual affection and a growing sexual restlessness. Everything depended on its realization. Cruise's character, Dr. William Harford, is in some ways a dim and passive fellow, self-victimized and hard to care for. His wife Alice would have been easy to play either ditsy or bitchy. But there is in Cruise a kind of passionate watchfulness and in Kidman a desperate and touching candor, and they keep drawing us past the narrative's improbabilities to its human heart. As for Kubrick, he is typically unsentimental and tough-minded, but his tracking shots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All Eyes On Them | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

Most R-rated films get that tag for lurid violence and language. If there's a bosom on display, it's usually either as a gag (the prosthetic dugs in There's Something About Mary) or a lure to humiliation (in next week's American Pie) or as power-play kink (in Summer of Sam). Nothing erotic--just the use of flesh as a tool of degradation. In the typical movie, sex is violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In Defense of Dirty Movies | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...offers SVGA-quality graphics and feels about as heavy as a pair of regular glasses. The price tag is pretty light too, a relatively meager $800. You won't be able to see your boss walk in, but he won't be able to see you playing games, either. LOOK, MA! NO WIRES Still trying to hook your laptop to your cell phone when you're on the road? Instead of wrestling with a kluge, try plugging in a wireless modem like Sierra Wireless' AirCard 300 for Windows. PC Expo was packed with products like this, all betting heavily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PC Expo Roundup | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

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