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...spend my life." Mathilde knows it too; in his Basset eyes she sees erotic ingenuity and unconditional love. Both are avid for the moment the shop door closes "so we can drown in the ocean of peace we love so much." French director Patrice Leconte, whose fine Monsieur Hire also dealt with romantic obsession, has devised a chamber fable about a man's infantile charm and a woman's nurturing sexuality. The movie is like the couple's love: pure, brief, passionate, heartbreaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Jun. 29, 1992 | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

...genuine, literal war. He has at various times suggested blowing up drug-carrying ships and bombing heroin producers in Southeast Asia. Perot also had an association with Bo Gritz, an ex-Green Beret. Gritz has contended in a book that Perot once told him he had government clearance to hire an antidrug operative. According to Gritz, Perot said, "I want you to uncover and identify everyone dealing cocaine between Colombia and Texas. Once you're sure you've got them all, I want you to wipe them out in a single night like an angel of death." A Perot spokesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Other Side of Perot | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

That could have been the mood on the Batman Returns set. It was chilly enough: 38 degrees F for the 12-hr. working days. Annette Bening, set to star as Catwoman, ducked out when she got pregnant, and Burton scurried to hire Michelle Pfeiffer. Anton Furst, who designed Batman but was not working on the sequel, died jumping off a roof and plunged the crew into melancholy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battier and Better | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

...While Catholic tradition says females cannot be priests, congregations could not operate without women, who do everything from catechism teaching to worship planning to pastoral counseling. Half of U.S. parishes hire salaried laity or members of religious orders to fill ministerial roles, and fully 85% of them (an estimated 17,000) are women. That does not even count women's continuing dominance in parochial schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cut From The Wrong Cloth | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

...someone has 14 earrings in their ears and their nose -- and who knows where else -- and spiky green hair and smells like a skunk, I don't know why I have to hire them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Society: Jun. 8, 1992 | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

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