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...look and should not be left in the dust of its bigger-footed, ham-handed cousins the blockbusters. In short, the movie's pace and generational eye tends to leave you giving lingering, meaningful looks at the world and its stories around you--the perfect antidote to the speed-freak pace of most summer fare...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: 'Star' an Antidote to Fluff | 7/16/1996 | See Source »

...Addenda provides a useful glimpse into the netherworld of post-contemporary wordsmithery. Control freak is here, as are dream team, deadbeat dad, drive-by (shooting), granny dumping, latte, managed care, mosh pit, outsource (but not downsize) and wellness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: MOSH! BORK! | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

Coast Guard officials see the case as a freak tragedy with no larger lessons. Still, some in the Coast Guard are asking whether the institution should have let the potentially career-ending charges hang over Blanchard for so long. By comparison, when a top Navy admiral suggested during a breakfast with the press last year that U.S. servicemen charged in the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl would have been smarter to hire a prostitute instead, he was out of his job by dinnertime. "The stress level went up as it dragged on and on," Connie Blanchard says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A POLITICAL SUICIDE | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

PHENOMENON (July 3). The morphing is metaphorical here: a regular Joe (Travolta) is zapped with psychic powers and an Einstein IQ. Naturally, he's a freak to be avoided, except by one (Kyra Sedgwick) who loves him. Sounds sappy, but could work: director Jon Turteltaub has fashioned some improbable hits (Cool Runnings, While You Were Sleeping), and Travolta is a perpetual charm machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SUDDENLY THIS SUMMER | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

McVeigh: I know it's human nature to not ignore what you've heard in the press, but I would ask them to be objective and open-minded. I have been misunderstood through labeling. Speed freak. Gun freak. Loner. My defense attorneys have said that people they have interviewed give a completely different picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA CITY: I'M JUST LIKE ANYONE ELSE | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

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