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...difficulties. Although the plot is standard quest situation, it also demands that the film deal with questions of religion, God and the afterlife. The screenplay by Ron Bass gives the standard Hollywood compromise that eliminates God from the proceedings. By setting the film on earth, City of Angels and Ghost could avoid making definite spiritual claims, but having the film take place in heaven and hell makes the omissions in What Dreams May Come even more unsuitable...

Author: By Jeremy J. Ross, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hell is a Dour Robin Williams; Heaven Can't Stand Him Either | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

...campaign, in Maryland, that Bremer, one of America's lethal, boardinghouse nonentities, gunned him down. Wallace campaigned again, in 1976, but as a ghost of himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGE CORLEY WALLACE: 1919-1998: Requiem for an Arsonist | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...every 100 new cars wouldn't start, Detroit would be a ghost town. But somehow Silicon Valley keeps booming despite the fact that a significant fraction of the computers it ships either don't work as advertised or don't work at all. In a new Windows magazine survey, some 87 percent of respondents reported that their computers booted up just fine. That sounds pretty good at first glance; but what it really means is that an astounding 13 percent of PCs are either dead on arrival or seriously maimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brain-Dead PCs | 9/24/1998 | See Source »

...downtown areas of all these towns and cities were once bustling centers of local commerce, replete with local stores and an individual character. Now those centers are modern-day ghost towns, with all the consumers having fled to the gold rush of national chain stores on the outskirts of town...

Author: By Timothy F. Sohn, | Title: Where Have the Small Towns Gone? | 9/22/1998 | See Source »

RECENT LYRICS: "When I was very "There's a ghost down in CLUES TO MINDSET? young/Nothing really the hall...a ghoul under mattered to me/But the bed/There's something making myself in the walls/There's blood happy...Now that I up on the stairs." am grown/Everything's changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 24, 1998 | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

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