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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Biologically, this is just asking for trouble. For one thing, the characteristics judges and clubs have decreed to be gorgeous can themselves be bad for the animals' health -- huge heads on bulldogs that make it difficult for them to be born naturally, for example, or the wrinkled skin on Shar-Peis that sets them up for rashes. For another, the best way to produce a puppy with a specific look is to mate two dogs who have that same look. As with any species, though, the closest resemblances are found among the closest relatives. So breeders often resort to inbreeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Terrible Beauty | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

...kills his girlfriend after learning she's cheating on him ("I'm the one who pays the bills," he says), then holes up in his apartment and shoots it out with the police. The album is not relentlessly dark, however. When 2 Are In Love ranks among the most gorgeous love songs Prince has ever written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Born Again | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

Despite its convoluted narrative, "Helas Pour Moi" is visually mesmerizing. Stunningly photographed on the banks of a Swiss lake, with vivid, rippling blue water and fields of poppies, the film looks gorgeous. The cinematography, combined with the Bach, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky soundtrack, makes the movie a sumptuous, sensual experience. The performances are also superb. Instead of being loud and bombastic, Depardieu's performance is unusually restrained and quite compelling...

Author: By Rachel E. Silverman, | Title: 'Helas' for the Audience | 12/1/1994 | See Source »

What the maestros heard was a simply gorgeous voice, well-produced, even and lively from top to bottom -- what Solti called "one of the great talents of the last 10 years." The man was a mountain, 6 ft. 3 in., broad-shouldered, barrel-chested, with a clear, open brow and merry eyes. He had easy poise and generous presence onstage. His calendar filled up fast (he now has no openings until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPERA: In The Lap of the Gods | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

...originated the project and put up the money for it. "This is a mature lady. At the end of Gone With the Wind, she winds up with no friends, just money. What kind of ending is that? I had to create somebody who starts there. Vivien Leigh started gorgeous and young and perky and ended up completely broken. I had to find somebody who could start out broken and end up being gorgeous and fulfilled and in love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Tomorrow Is Another Yawn | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

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