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...dreams: a man strolls onstage with a small marionette in the shape of a coffeepot, then runs off and reappears as a huge percolator walking a tiny man-shaped marionette. A pixilated sleight-of- hand artist puts a bunny in a box (ho-hum), pulls out an air pump (hmmm), attaches same to box and pumps mightily (what?), and finally produces not the expected exploding hare but a live jumbo rabbit who appears to be only slightly smaller than a Shetland. All right, all right -- it's still only a big bunny, but it seems so large because the Chaplin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aerobics for The Imagination | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

...Hmmm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madonna In Bloom: MADONNA | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

Coppola's long-awaited,$50 million-plus sequel almost didn't make its Christmas deadline. Early on, it was considered a sure blockbuster, but doubts are growing. Do young moviegoers care about the Corleones? Hmmm. (opens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Hot Holiday Season | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...there, Dr. Frankenstein, mucking about with dinosaur DNA are you? Good strong fence around the lab, hmmm? But the villagers seem a bit restless anyway? Well, what do they know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dino DNA | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

ARCHIE: TO RIVERDALE AND BACK AGAIN (NBC, May 6, 9 p.m. EDT). The comic-book teenagers, grown to thirtysomething age, come to TV in a two-hour movie. Archie is now a lawyer, Veronica a divorcee and Jughead a psychiatrist. Hmmm, maybe we liked them better as kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: May 7, 1990 | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

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