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...furs and being driven around in limos. The vision is of New York as an international center for wealth, where anyone with capital feels at home, and anyone without capital has no place." So after years of wrangling, the $5 billion project is still no more than the proverbial gleam in Trump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flashy Symbol of an Acquisitive Age: DONALD TRUMP | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...glamour-trash fiction. As a result, White Mischief plays as something a lot of people claim to have been missing for years, a good-bad movie. It will shock some of the innocent, titillate others and amuse the sophisticated, who will not be wrong if they detect a certain gleam -- probably wicked, possibly cynical -- in the director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Way Out in Africa WHITE MISCHIEF | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...sleek; the director of Legend knows about the perils of passion. Scott is also an ace stylist, and set loose in New York City he creates a Deluxe color version of an Old Hollywood vision: Manhattan in the '40s, with its twin thrills of grandeur and menace. The sidewalks gleam like a Bakelite floor. A hired gun jogs into a Fifth Avenue foyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: High-Risk Love in an Alien World SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...first torturer was a ROTC-Nazi whose sundae-cup scraped across the glass counter, filling me with nails'n'blackboard shudders. "Man, that's a terrible noise," I laughed shakily. A sinister, piggy gleam lit up ROTC-Nazi's eyes. He scraped the cup again. A mistake, an accident, I thought, as my body convulsed...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Primal 'Scream | 3/5/1987 | See Source »

...what the hell are you doing here?" I asked, a hospitable gleam lighting up my cherubic face. The Dinosaur whirled, chains clanking softly against his leathery torso. A black leather coat--imbedded with steel plates and crusted with spikes--made up his armor; a gelled crest of blonde mohawk arced across his skull, calling to mind some genetically mutated stegosaurus. The Dinosaur...

Author: By John P. Thompson, BRAIN LINT: | Title: BRAIN LINT | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

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