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...another player in the El Nino drama is a cycle in the tropical Atlantic that involves a flip-flop between twin pools of water--one warm, one cool--that sit on opposite sides of the equator. Depending on the configuration, farmers in northeastern Brazil could either suffer greatly at the hands of El Nino or feel very little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fury Of El Nino | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

...almost think that's worse than the act itself--the not knowing." Only when her best female friend is also dumped does Jane begin to sense that it's the bulls, not the cows, who have the greater problem, giving rise to her bovine theory of "why men flip-flop from passion to panic until they finally disappear." Just as the Cow device begins to wear thin and vengeful excess looms, Zigman reigns in her prickly impulses and serves up an ending that feels cathartic and true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Milked Maids | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

...YEAR'S RESOLUTION] Remember the flop Boris and Natasha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE HOLIDAY STOCKING IS TOO FULL | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

Throughout Another City, Not My Own, Dunne has threaded his personal story. After arriving in Los Angeles in the late 1950s, he led an A-list social life but was a B-list producer, making The Boys in the Band, The Panic in Needle Park and the Elizabeth Taylor flop Ash Wednesday. "I hated Nick in the old days," says Sue Mengers, the most powerful agent in Hollywood at the time. "I thought he was superficial and arrogant." Dunne would agree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: L.A. CONFIDENTIAL | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...local Blockbuster video store. His brother (Peter Gallagher of sex, lies and videotape fame), on the other hand, is a smooth talking well-dressed I-banker in London. Wallace decides to drop in on his brother for his birthday (thankfully Gallagher saves us a reprise of his recent flop To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday). The brother, James, freaks, being on the cusp of a multimillion dollar deal with the Germans" (soon virtually every nationality's stereotype will be played out). He decides to send Wallace out on an evening of participatory theater, "The Theater of Life...

Author: By Whitney K. Bryant, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ignorance = Comedy | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

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