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...realism that (in the tradition of "Like Water for Chocolate," "House of the Spirits" and ultimately Gabriel Garcia Marquez) has recently become a trademark of Latin American productions. But here it somehow manages to seem fresh as clouds boil around the head of an angry Celeste and magic potions glow with cosmic energy. Indeed, the fortune-telling visions of the astrologist and the odd herbal concoctions of the witch-doctor seem hardly stranger than the post-Freudian tactics of the head-shrinker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ariadna Gil Is Fabulous in 'Celestial Clockwork' | 8/13/1996 | See Source »

Thayer resident Nicole L. Eisner said someone took $20 cash and a bottle of glow paint from her unlocked room, then used the paint to vandalize the door of the room below her. Friedberg said that $18 was also taken from his room...

Author: By R. ALAN Leo, | Title: Vandal Policy Harsh, Thayer Residents Say | 7/26/1996 | See Source »

...still refer to Hammer by his last name alone, at his request. He thinks it makes him sound more sinister. In the late '60s, when Hammer and all of his friends liked to think of themselves as dangerous, you could make him glow by calling him the Hammer, as in "Do you think the Hammer's phone is tapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAMMER: A FOLK TALE | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

...when you lose your day job and perhaps the lunkhead you've married who likes meat loaf and ketchup. The magazine and television show bearing her name and developed with Time Inc. (she and the company are talking about restructuring the relationship) have a Merchant-Ivory movie-set glow. Actual people, as opposed to imported guests, would really mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME 25: THEY RANGE IN AGE FROM 31 TO 67 | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

Could any young actress not wilt in this adoring, predatory glare? All right, Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday--but that film had an old-Hollywood glow, and Hepburn was unique. The two Tyler movies are anemic, anomic art-house fodder. One comes from the director of The Conformist and The Last Emperor; the other from the guy who is about to make CopLand, the film Sly Stallone hopes will turn him into a certified Actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ONE LIFE TO LIV--BUT CAN SHE ACT? | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

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