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...film, Yellow Earth (1984), has been the indoctrination of children--and, often, their misuse by those who should care for them (read: the state). But he has never illustrated it as voluptuously as here. He and ace cinematographer Christopher Doyle bathe Gong Li in warm reds, giving her a fever of frustrated love, and surround Cheung with cold grays to reflect the ice of his resentment. As the slick gigolo and avenging angel of the Pang family, Cheung radiates the intensity of a lover scorned and scarred for life. In a performance that dares to avoid sentiment and sympathy, Cheung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A REAL SUMMER BREAK | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

...Football fever swept Harvard in the fall of 1946, as the Crimson returned to official varsity play after a three-year wartime hiatus...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Game Returns After Three-Year Hiatus; 'Crinkly Tweeds' Fill Stadium | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...also that year that we all caught comet fever; Halley's had come to town. For several weeks we endured arctic temperatures, looking skyward until our necks were sore. Everyone ooed and ahhed, and I think I was the only kid in town who admitted to not being able to see the damn thing. Finally, one frigid night I looked through the telescope at the high school and saw a pea-sized white blob. I'm told it was the comet, but it looked more like frost on the lens to me. I knew from school that we wouldn...

Author: By Gabriel B. Eber, | Title: The Naked Comet | 4/12/1997 | See Source »

...Sananda, deities with names you could find at a perfume counter, or to extraterrestrials--the Zeta Reticuli, the Draconian Reptoids--who sound like softball teams at the Star Wars cantina. Carl Raschke, a cult specialist at the University of Denver, predicts "an explosion of bizarre and dangerous" cults. "Millennial fever will be on a lot of minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LURE OF THE CULT | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...while many who burn the midnight oil try to add dance-club fever to pass the monotony of their work, the graveyard shift is not all about musical taste...

Author: By Richard M. Burns, | Title: Night Owls Flock To 24-Hour Haunts | 4/2/1997 | See Source »

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