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...unfiltered, undiluted. Still, she's got a tricky, winding road ahead. Finding film scripts as well written as her TV series, scripts that aren't steaming chunks of Gen Y exploitation, would be a tough task for any young actress attempting to make that small-screen-to-silver-screen leap. But with a scrappy new movie, a hot TV series and that smile, at this moment she's got enough gas to go wherever she wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Call Of The Wild | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

...another wall, a two-headed woman leaps through the air, with the head and neck of a white woman attached to the crown of her nappy-haired head. The delicate position of her arms and the grace of her ballet-like leap imply that she, like the waltzing couple, finds pride in her appearance. Perhaps, she is unaware of her second head. More likely, considering her posture, she is proud to have garnished a European head, and is unaware of her deformity. Even more disconcerting, perhaps she acknowledges her deformity, and considers it a small price...

Author: By Velma M. Mcewen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Collective Unconscious `Reconfigured' in Black and White: Kara Walker | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

Riley said that if parents read with their children for 30 minutes a day or sang evening lullabies to infants, national education would take a "great leap forward...

Author: By James P. Mcfadden, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Riley Outlines Education Reforms | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

Maybe, just maybe, Harvard handed Stanford its first loss at Maples Pavilion in 60 games because all of the Crimson's players showed the poise necessary to make 5,000-plus fans a non-factor. All you had to see was the way Harvard's bench would leap to its feet and cheer with fists pumping every time a teammate hit a crucial bucket to understand the type of desire and character the Crimson displayed...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, | Title: Cinderella Run Gunned Down By Sharpshooting Arkansas | 3/17/1998 | See Source »

...music, you'd think there was a jump from the upbeat Top 40 of Reagan's America--epitomized in Madonna's "Material Girl" (1984)--to the brooding alternative explosion of Clinton's '90s, marked by Nirvana's breakthrough hit "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (1991). In making that leap you'd skip both the George Bush years and the apex of a key musical genre: the power ballad...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: A Time Before Nirvana | 3/11/1998 | See Source »

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