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...highway and facing a creek that runs below a bridge, is an abandoned house that was not quite lost to a fire. No one has bothered to knock it down or rebuild it. Its windows are shuttered with gray planks of wood, shingles are missing like jack-o'-lantern teeth, and its beams are scorched. It would be perfect as a haunted house for the local kids this Halloween, if any kid would care to go near it. But the house looks too forlorn for games and too forbidding. I don't even know if I should discuss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Regarding the Haunted House | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

Check it out! Man walks down that street so fine. Strides easy. Long, looking right. Left then. Then ahead, then left...snap!...again, follows that little sister in the tight pants a ways, then back on the beam. Arms arc. Could be some old trainman, swinging an imaginary lantern in the night. Smiling. Stepping so smart. Rolls, almost. Swings his butt like he's shifting gears in a swivel chair. Weight stays, sways, in his hips. Shoulders, straight, shift with the strut. High and light. Street's all his, past doubt. And more, if he wants. Could be he might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1973-1980 Limits | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...advance? Directing is about seeing 20 moves ahead while you're working on the next five." He'll do all the work himself, if the person assigned to the job can't hack it. In one scene the faces of the slaves are to be lighted by a lantern carried by one of the crew. But it isn't working. "Let me do the light myself," Spielberg says, holding the lantern so that the slaves' tortured faces are perfectly illuminated. He even shoots a second-unit "insert" scene of a crumpled letter tossed onto a table. "I like to sweat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: PETER PAN GROWS UP BUT CAN HE STILL FLY? | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...wall of windows full of well-cut, preppie-style separates, many emblazoned with the Hilfiger logo or a giant H--and that's not for Harvard. The store held an autograph party, as if the designer were Michael Jordan or Luciano Pavarotti. Lean, perky, with his trademark jack-o'-lantern grin in place, Hilfiger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: H STANDS FOR HILFIGER | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

...consistent thread running throughout the ceremonies was reverence for the Olympic ideal, and it became a full tapestry in the Tradition of the Games sequence. A Greek temple rose up from the field and was then shrouded in white to give it the effect of a magic lantern. Next, giant silhouettes of classical Greek athletes appeared--archers, wrestlers, javelin and discus throwers, runners--and the crowd gasped as one. It truly was a beautiful sequence, connecting the ancient with the present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AN OLD SWEET SONG | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

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