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Not bad. But would Clinton want to plead not guilty by reason of addiction? Doubtful: it concedes too much. Which leaves this scenario: Bill and Hillary Clinton sit down with Barbara Walters in the White House family quarters. Barbara is empowered to hear confessions and grant absolution--the priestess of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Confession Game: Assuming It's The Truth, | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

Allow me to invite you down to the Louisiana bayou. It's a place where the temperature is so high, the men are often more comfortable walking around without their shirts on than with 'em; a place where the air is so humid, the women will dress in little more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alum Sets First Film in Steamy, Sensual Bayou | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

Each of the writers finds something different in New York, but most seem to express sentiments similar to Heather Chase's description of the city as "largely populated by self-selected orphans, nomads and people with variable identities." New York emerges from the descriptions of the writers as lonely and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor Combines Modern Voices | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

In his early ballets, Robbins favored clear-cut dramatic situations. "What really interests me," he said in 1958, "is the conduct of man, the rites he performs to face the mysteries of life." The Cage portrays a tribe of ferocious, insect-like women who kill the men with whom they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Made in The U.S.A. Genius: Jerome Robbins, master choreographer | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

Our minds drift back and forth between the sacred and the mundane: between our ideas, our myths about ourselves, on one hand, and on the other our everyday, mortal disorder, our contradictions, our injustices and our need for the law. In the borderland between the two realms we encounter the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stories Sacred, Lies Mundane | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

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