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Cahill (Brendan Gleeson) was, in fact, Dublin's master thug in the 1980s, leader of a gang that pulled off a string of gaudy robberies, and also a great local celebrity. Constantly tailed by the police, he went boldly about the city but always with his face hidden, if only by his own hands. Mocking authority in this way, he enhanced his mystery, hence his power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ho, Ho (Well, No) | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...street last week. (No, the driver was not an angry Congressman.) "Bad timing on my part," Carlson says. "If you're going to get run over, you should find a week when the President's not being impeached." You can catch Carlson and collar on CNN's The Capitol Gang, where she's a regular panelist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: Dec. 21, 1998 | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...GANG OF THREE Their free time will help fill kids' after-school hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Give-Back Years | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...choose to dwell on in the story of Moses says as much about our dreams and fears as it does about Scripture. Eugene Rivers, a Pentecostal minister in Boston's poor Dorchester neighborhood, has depicted Moses as an African revolutionary (Egypt is in Africa, after all) to teach gang members about throwing off the yoke of slavery to drugs. Norman Cohen, provost of New York City's Hebrew Union College, used the prophet's speech defect to come to terms with his own temporary paralysis. Moses is a universal symbol of liberation, law and leadership, sculpted by Michelangelo, painted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search Of Moses | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...other hand, you have to admit that there is something brave about moving this character from the place where he usually lurks in the movies--on the comic-relief fringe of a teen-age gang--to the center of the action. You also have to admire the creepy arrogance of Schwartzman's performance. We can see that it covers loneliness, social ineptitude, even a certain amount of duplicity. His father is not the neurosurgeon he claims he is, but a barber. Yet the actor never once sues us for sympathy, and it comes as a nice surprise when we find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Class Clowns | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

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