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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mick's reasons for jaunting to London from his home in Sheffield are quite different from Judy's--less hokey maybe, but not much more believable. Mick speeds to the city in order to exact revenge on six men who (he is told) raped his girlfriend, Gabby, after her act at a private strip-show. As he knows nothing about the city, Mick ducks into a bookstore to buy a map, but comically, he accomplishes little more than entertaining us with the plop-thud of his wooden dialogue: "'What's your name?' Mick asked. She hesitated before saying, 'Judy. Judy...

Author: By David B. Waller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hemorrhaging Novel | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

...fantasy is. Her family all tread very softly around her, hoping that "she won't be dangerous as long as she takes her medicine." Lesly, as the odd man out, is the only character to question the family's complete submission to and indulgence of Jackie O. With the exact nature of Jackie's illness left very vague, the viewer suffers from a devilish, but painful, ambivalence over whether her mental state followed the incest or was present all along. Meanwhile, Mrs. Pascal and the rest of the family accept the incest as a natural occurrence in this very unconventional...

Author: By Kamil E. Redmond, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Take a Pillbox Hat and a Social Taboo... | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

Dowker said that the thieves entered his office at 4:10 a.m. Dowker said that as they entered the office, they knocked his "Manchester United Football" clock off the wall. The batteries fell out, and the clock now reads the exact time of the forced entry...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Math Dept. Offices Vandalized | 10/15/1997 | See Source »

...focus now "is to gather basic knowledge of where there might be a like-lihood of earthquakes, but also to have enough instruments deployed so that the exact nature and extent of an earthquake, once it happens, can be accurately assessed," he says...

Author: By Nicholas A. Nash, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Seismology Device Yields More Accuracy | 10/14/1997 | See Source »

Then there are celebrities whose exact commitment to the faith is a guessing game. Oliver Stone publicly conscripts Tibetan "wrathful deities" to fend off his detractors; Courtney Love is said to be a practitioner, while Harrison Ford simply supports Tibetan freedom (his wife Melissa Mathison wrote Kundun's script). Composer Philip Glass, yes. REM singer Michael Stipe, maybe. And in one of the more peculiar occurrences along the Hollywood-Lhasa axis, action-film star and all-around surly guy Steven Seagal was recognized by the head of the venerable Nyingma Tibetan lineage as the reincarnation of a 15th century lama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUDDHISM IN AMERICA | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

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