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With three stunning performances this film would have been good--with six it's great. Helen Hunt of "Mad About You" as Kilmartin's wife demonstrates that a film career is hers for the taking, and Michael Rapaport oozes sleaze as Ronnie. This character is such a jerk that it's almost possible to forgive Little Junior for beating the pulp...

Author: By Jon Bonanno, | Title: Stunning and Pungent, 'Death' Breathes Life Into Film | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

Staff editorials must be informed. This editorial, based on a knee-jerk reaction and no knowledge, is not. The staff should know better than to pass an editorial that is built...

Author: By Young-ho Yoon, | Title: Staff Lacks Knowledge | 4/19/1995 | See Source »

...definitely wouldn't have had such aknee-jerk reaction to it," Hanselman said. "Iwould have brought it up in front of the fullcouncil and gotten their approval...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, | Title: U.C. Members Sign Petition Censuring Liston | 4/15/1995 | See Source »

...problem with writing the bio of a loser is that after a while, his utter carelessness gets annoying. It's hard to read about Jimi doing nothing and mooching his way off his friends and not think, "What a jerk," or, like the hardworking cooks who throw carrots at him out the restaurant window, want to yell "Get a job asshole." Throwing carrots along with the cooks is a tempting prospect...

Author: By Judy E. Dutton, | Title: `Technicolor' Loser Nothing More Than Pulp | 3/3/1995 | See Source »

...later, I'm down at the local galaxy-class grocery store, in Bulk: a Manhattan of towering Lucite bins filled with steel-cut rolled oats, off- brand Froot Loops, sun-dried tomatoes, prefabricated s'mores, macadamias, French roasts and pignolias, all dispensed into your bag or bucket with a jerk at the handy Plexiglas guillotine. Not a human being in sight, just robot restocking machines trundling back and forth on a grid of overhead catwalks and surveillance cameras hidden in smoked-glass hemispheres. I stroll through the gleaming Lucite wonderland holding a perfect 6-in. cube improvised from duct tape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT SIMOLEON CAPER | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

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