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...ended up with a partial and imperfect list, but in the end, these are the voices we love to hear," she wrote...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, | Title: Talk Magazine Names Harvard Profs West, Gomes "Big Mouths" | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

...since 1995. Like a lot of the novels on which good movies are based, it is an entertaining, erotically charged fiction of the second rank, in need of the vivifying physicalization of the screen and the kind of narrative focus a good director can bring to imperfect but provocative life--especially when he has been thinking about it as long as Kubrick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All Eyes On Them | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...dryer and a good cleaning did the job. But today's louse, a.k.a. Pediculus humanus capitis, which nests in 12 million new heads annually, is a hardier bug, having grown resistant to the prescription drugs lindane and Elimite and the over-the-counter permethrin drug Nix, which remain imperfect mainstays in the treatment of lice. "The pyrethrins [RID, Pronto and A-200 Pyrinate] aren't working as well as they used to either," says University of Miami lice expert Terri Meinking. Such insecticide products all have side effects. And none are 100% ovicidal, which doesn't cut it with today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family: The Lice Breakers | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...Tarzan is not Oedipus Rex. It's a Disney coming-of-age comedy-drama in Lion King territory, with five radio-friendly tunes written and sung by Phil Collins. It has a standard villain: a grating white hunter (whose musculature nicely mimics Kerchak's, thus suggesting their similarity as imperfect male role models for the boy). It has a reeeeally cute baby baboon. It enfolds our hero in a dream jungle, painted in the lushest of sherbetty forest colors and shot in a new, virtual 3-D format called Deep Canvas that vivifies the scenes. Its set pieces (Tarzan swipes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Him Tarzan, Him Great | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...Imperfect Process...

Author: By Erica R. Michelstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Junior Faculty Quit Harvard for Tenure Track Jobs Elsewhere | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

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