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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Eventually, he may learn to apply this editing skill to the excesses that mar the novel--a rich attachment to vulgarity, including a deadening level of profanity and a comically exaggerated preoccupation with smells. Clearly, Weiss wants the reader to accept Burry as a fatal temptress. But it does not help to be told early on that her aroma is "part B.O. and maybe patchouli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARTY ANIMALS | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

LAST TIME IT WAS MARIO CUOMO. THIS TIME IT'S PETE WILSON. JUST AS the possibility of Mario loomed like a fatal disease over the 1992 Democratic presidential wannabes, so the current G.O.P. contenders are apoplectic about Wilson's running--a near certainty now, with an announcement possible this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOR PETE'S SAKE | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

Bacterial meningitis is a disease that can cause inflammation around the brain and spinal cord and make victims very sick within a day of exposure. It is fatal in about one out of every seven cases, public health authorities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Regional Briefs | 3/21/1995 | See Source »

YOUNG, GUNG-HO MAJOR SALT (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is eager to impress his bosses by describing the fatal cunning of the Motaba virus-how it rapidly turns a healthy body into a bloody, pustulous corpse. "That's very good, Major," says Colonel Sam Daniels (Dustin Hoffman) wryly. "We've read that in a book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIS VIRUS ISN'T CATCHING | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

...movie's frequently plausible situations make the viewer uncomfortable. Motaba, the incurable, fatal African disease brought over by a monkey, can't be laughed off. Nor can scenes of the town's isolation under martial law. The formerly bucolic Cedar Creek is surrounded with barbed wire. Heavily guarded "camps" are constructed in which people march in, and emerge as corpses. The final solution for dealing with the infected, and thus incurable, is also disturbing--bomb them and destroy the virus...

Author: By Alexa Zesiger, | Title: A Heavy Dose of Dustin | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

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