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The HUPD radio hums in the background, rattling off an endless barrage of codes, car numbers and static. The stream of white noise is interrupted only by the crooning of the Bryan Adams and the Blues Traveler tunes playing on the radio.

Author: By Courtney A. Coursey, | Title: A Night in the Life of Harvard Police Officers | 11/9/1996 | See Source »

The Dunblane murders suggested a split that D.H. Lawrence discussed in his famous meditation on American literature, "Destroy! Destroy! Destroy! hums the unconscious." The killer of children wishes to annihilate the contrary impulse that Lawrence wrote of, the upper consciousness that urges, "Love and produce! Love and produce!"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE UNCONSCIOUS HUMS, DESTROY! | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

Shortly before his death in 1980, Lennon recorded the unfinished tune--a slight hymn to deliverance, with the structure of his 1964 This Boy and the feel of his 1970 post-Beatles Love--on a low-fi home cassette, which Yoko Ono Lennon turned over to her husband's old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GET BACK | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

Jeremy Leven's "Don Juan de Marco" is a dishearteningly monochromatic interpretation of the world's most notorious lover. Johnny Depp, with his penchant for eccentric roles, seems to be an inspired choice to play the mysterious, sensuous young man who appears in the late twentieth century to recount intimate...

Author: By Marco M. Spino, | Title: Legendary Dons' Juan Is No Gift | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

The show begins right where the last one left off, with the plucky orphan gamboling around a Christmas tree with her adoptive plutocrat. In steams a social-welfare commissioner with a bad attitude, played by Alene Robertson as a cross between Bella Abzug and Shelley Winters at their coarsest. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Redhead Is Back | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

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