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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this Disney no-brainer, one of those renegade-hides-out-with-cute -nuns movies that + Hollywood makes every three years. So Sister Act (which has grossed $125 million to date) has a touch of class it doesn't really deserve. So do Clara's Heart, Jumpin' Jack Flash and Ghost (for which Goldberg got the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, though she is firm in announcing that she's an actor, and never mind the feminine dismissive). She has the ability to turn a routine flick into a pretty good movie entirely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Joy of Being Whoopi Goldberg | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

Moreover, the protrayal of sexual relations in the play is often quite crude. Clive, coming out from underneath Mrs. Saunders' skirts, complains, "I have a hair in my mouth." Lynn's brother's ghost returns from the other side to give her an incisive commentary on why war is hell: "I was bored all day and wanking all night...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Just Use A Condom | 8/21/1992 | See Source »

...being called defectors from the great man's cause. Reagan will come to forgive George Bush for raising taxes -- and to make sure he never does it again. Which means that Bush will be as weak in a second term as in the first. Realists, of course, see this ghost from the past as an incubus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unfriendly Skies | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

...procedure has been always haunted by the ghost of the innocent man convicted. It is an unreal dream." -- Judge Learned Hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roger Keith Coleman: Must This Man Die? | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

...galleries, and died of kidney failure at the age of 44 without leaving a single recorded comment on his art or, indeed, on anything else, beyond declaring that "I endeavour to make the composition tell a story." But one may be fairly sure that if his ghost saw the Met's catalog, it would utter an Irish oath of bewilderment. It features essays by 22 scholars, all solemnly excogitating on such weighty matters as whether the horseshoes in his pictures are from dray horses or Thoroughbreds. If one wanted an example of how art history gets trivialized by sheer overpopulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Reliable Bag of Tricks | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

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