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...English Patient, Currier's image of the desert as an inhospitable realm, physically and psychically rocky for those unused to its contours, is a welcome inclusion to the motion picture atlas. Currier's distaste for dramatics, however, is somewhat crippling to her narrative, which so carefully withdraws from any hint of comedy or irony that it inches closer and closer to forsaking emotion altogether. Currier is clearly and artist of proficiency and discipline, but the solemn mood she so carefully constructs does not seem ideal for the project at hand. Passion is a messy, extravagant phenomenon, and a hard...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Desert Passion Meditates on Man and Beast | 7/2/1998 | See Source »

...global bonfire of 1998 is a warning, an unsubtle hint that humanity will have to change its ways or watch its forests disappear. It is a smoke signal we cannot afford to ignore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planet Watch: Smoke Signals | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...apparently, given the electrifying volatility we saw last week. The new breakers are intended to give investors ample time to calm down and think when the market slides 10% or more in a day. But don't wait until that day to consider what you'll do. Take the hint: exchange officials have overhauled their crash plan; so should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stock Market: Your Crash Plan | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

Such breakthrough works afford the merest hint of Glimp's startling originality. Given his first showing in 1907 at a gallery in Sardinia, Glimp declared his "revolt against the age-old tyranny of the frame" and produced an oil painting (Nude Stretching) that flowed off the canvas onto the wall and floor and then out the door, continuing some 320 ft. along the sidewalk. In 1911 his atonal lesbian operetta, Gal Crazy, caused a riot in Seville, where audience members mistakenly believed they were about to see a bullfight. His kinetic 1928 novel, Run, Fight, Nap, written using only verbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unknown CRANFORD GLIMP | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...signs of a hydrothermal system found by the Surveyor hint at a thicker, more Earth-like atmosphere during the planet's first couple billion years. High temperatures may also be one reason the planet is now red. The Greeks thought the Martian color meant war and destruction; Surveyor may end up proving it means creation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Times on Mars | 5/28/1998 | See Source »

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