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...Hollywood that has forgotten subtlety. The comedies are gross, the thrillers sadistic, the dramas moral tales for preschoolers. At least Mr. Holland gives you some good music (Gershwin, Ray Charles, three Beethoven symphonies) to hum along with while you cry. It's a greatest-hits album, with Kleenex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: FEEL-GOOD? NO, FEEL BAD! | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

...Socks, baby, the secret's in the socks," Jawak said. "Kleenex is just, it's just not fluffy enough. You want big, massive, impressive boobs. If you're going to be a woman for one day you might as well have tits...

Author: By Mary W. Lu, | Title: Skirts Swoosh at Drag Night | 10/27/1995 | See Source »

...patrol car with the sisters [female Revolutionary Guards]. They were looking for women who weren't wearing proper Islamic covering. They threw acid in their faces or said, 'Let me take off your lipstick,' and cut their lips with a razor hidden in a Kleenex." She also recalls the early lure of plunder. "The government offered my husband and me a villa in north Tehran. It was incredible, like a palace. My husband said, 'No, we can't take it.' But there were many other Revolutionary Guards who drank alcohol and took people's houses. It sickened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REVOLUTIONARY DISINTEGRATION | 6/26/1995 | See Source »

...like this. The insanity must stop. Embarrassment aside, she's heading for one mean sneeze. By going along with your girlfriend's nasty habit, you are not helping anyone, save the Kleenex company. And the last thing corporate America needs is more unwitting help from the little people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norma Knows | 3/9/1995 | See Source »

...refugees do not want to talk about anything but their burning desire to get out of Gitmo and be united with family members in the U.S. The visiting journalists were mobbed by people begging them to accept tiny slips of paper or bits of Kleenex boxes scrawled with names and numbers. "Call my mother," refugees pleaded. "Please let my uncle know I'm O.K." They do not even want to talk about what they will do if they have to stay in Guantanamo for good, and refuse to believe that will happen. Says Lazaro Rubio, a 30- year-old sculptor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cubans, Go Home | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

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