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...time is half-past the Apocalypse in the inventive French comedy DELICATESSEN, but the setting has the look of Gallic movies from the grungy- romantic '30s. Everything else is, well, different. Meat is scarce here, so the piggy butcher serves chopped humans to his customers -- who may soon be his victims. A housewife bent on suicide rigs up a dozen Rube Goldberg devices of destruction. Underground, an army of inept "Troglodists" (sort of Middle- Age Mutant Dingy Frogmen) plots revolution. And a nice guy in clown shoes hopes the butcher's myopic daughter will see the goodness in his heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Mar. 30, 1992 | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

ROSANNE CASH: HITS 1979-1989 (Columbia). She's got a half-past-4-in-the- morning voice and a knowing way with a song that can make any listener wish the night would go on forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 1, 1989 | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

ROSANNE CASH: HITS 1979-1989 (Columbia). She's got a half-past-4-in-the- morning voice and a knowing way with a song that can make any listener wish the night would go on forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Apr. 24, 1989 | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

ROSANNE CASH: HITS 1979-1989 (Columbia). She's got a half-past-4-in-the- morning voice, and a knowing way with a song that can make any listener wish the night would go on forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Apr. 17, 1989 | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

Indeed you do not. It is a please-and-thank-you kind of town, with a sheen of sophistication the rest of Texas begrudgingly still aspires to. Elsewhere, Texans have been known to agree to meet at "dark-30" or "half-past dawn." Dallas people meet according to the clock. Elsewhere in Texas, the beautiful are "pretty as a speckled pup under a red wagon," and the plain are "ugly as homemade sin." Dallas prefers straightforward adjectives: gorgeous, beautiful, attractive, interesting looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing Off for the G.O.P. | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

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