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Columbia, S.C.: South Carolina hasn't been much of a trendsetter on legal or social issues, but it may have started down the path to banning abortion all by itself. In the most aggressive move by any state to grant rights to fetuses, the state's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a mother can be prosecuted for child abuse if she takes drugs during pregnancy. South Carolina's Attorney General Charlie Condon called the ruling a "landmark decision for protecting children" and said he would charge prosecutors and social workers with enforcing the new law. While the ruling is unlikely...
Every few minutes or so, Jackie Joyner-Kersee beats all comers in the 10-m dash. Grant Hill seems willing to go one-on-one with hundreds of wannabes. Shannon Miller never loses her balance on the beam even though she walks the walk...
...Scarlet and Black) and in seven films (including Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book, as a full-frontal demon lover) over the past two years. With Trainspotting, McGregor looks set to take Hollywood, if he cares to. Ralph Fiennes, Daniel Day-Lewis, Hugh Grant--beware! Here comes Brit star quality, the next generation...
...MOVIES . . . LONE STAR: In life the past haunts us. In the movies it has become a throwaway line. No one seems to care anymore how characters reach the pretty pass in which the first reel finds them. No one seems to remember the power of history to grant coherence to chaotic experience. No one but John Sayles, that is. His Lone Star has become, in limited release, this summer1s movie of choice for grownups who still regard intricate narrative and careful characterization as the most treasurable of special effects, says TIME's Richard Schickel. There are no explosions here, just...
...mind, at least, is not in the gutter--can't afford to waste time there, given the amount of busy work he has to attend. This largely derives from the complexities of novelist Carl Hiaasen's quite faithfully followed plot. It places Moore's character, a stripper named Erin Grant, in a nasty fight to regain custody of her daughter from a creepy former spouse, which in turn involves her in the murderous machinations of corrupt rich people...