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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...position where he can gratify every craving for kinky sex, fast cars, and groovy karaoke, Eddie is appealingly unattached to anything but self-preservation. Tagawa's imposing frame and iron stare give Eddie a menacing lusty edge missing from Crichton's version...

Author: By John Aboud, | Title: Japanese, U.S. Cultures Clash In Tense Crichton Thriller | 7/30/1993 | See Source »

...sometimes overpraised for feminist reasons, it carries a deep strand of % recollection interwoven with sexual fantasy and dreams of vengeance, refracted through strange uses of material. Included in the Venice show are some of her recent cage sculptures, including Cell (Choisy), a harsh essay on memory: inside an iron-mesh enclosure is a pink marble effigy of her childhood home in France, where her parents repaired Gobelin carpets. It has the enticing glow of a Magritte villa at dusk, but above the door to the cage, ready to be tripped, is a guillotine blade. You can't go home again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Shambles In Venice | 6/28/1993 | See Source »

...When the Iron Curtain disintegrated, few would have guessed that in less than five years it would lead to a massive exodus of poverty-stricken East European women, desperate to sell themselves for what rarely turns out to be the good life. Police say a quarter of Germany's 200,000 prostitutes are now from the former East bloc. Even in the puritanical Middle East, charter flights full of Russian women disembark weekly at Dubai's airport, ply their trade on 14-day visas and head home, loaded with color television sets. At the Gallery, a Brussels nightclub, a naked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prostitution: The Skin Trade | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

Kennedy isn't saying he's a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde--two completely different people inside one, He's more like legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow, who won praise Iron athe ists for his defense of Darwinism in the Scopes trial, all the while remaining personally devout...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: From 'Poon to Perspective, The Two Sides of a Paradox | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

...know. Ronald Reagan relied on James Baker, and George Bush turned to John Sununu, because both Presidents knew they lacked the rigor required to run the Executive Branch alone. Clinton refuses to admit that he cannot do it all himself. "They need someone who can maintain iron discipline, who will look at the schedule and take a red pen to anything that isn't about the economy," said a senior Democrat. But Clinton needs someone who can also discipline Clinton. Says a close friend of 25 years: "They've got to get somebody to manage the President, hands on, full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Sinking Feeling | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

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