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...press pass or market badge (for members of the industry). But lacking those, you can always try begging. One Frenchwoman, denied admission to a screening of Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark, sobbed at the barricades with such fervor that she could have earned a role in Les Miserables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catnip for Film Connoisseurs | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

EDWIN EDWARDS Les bon temps roulez ex Gov. nailed for extortion. Can you get good gumbo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 22, 2000 | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...bleak look beneath the surface of the nation's current self-satisfaction. Silk's off-campus troubles include an affair with Faunia Farley, a 34-year-old janitor who is crazed because her two children were killed in a house fire while she was having sex in the driveway. Les, her estranged husband, must add that anguish to his tormenting memories of Vietnam combat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Authors: The Unremovable Stain | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

...It’s the classic tale of true love versus love of the Game. For us hockey fans, both sentiments peak in the spring, when les fleurs d’amour are in bloom and Lord Stanley’s Cup is prim and prime. Unfortunately, picking one usually means throwing away the other...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Putting Romance on Ice | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

...easily see why Dali's illusionism was so bitterly attacked as mere trickery--an imposture made even worse by Dali's flagrant preference for Raphael and even the arch-academic Meissonier over Matisse or Mondrian, and by his impertinent way of calling true-believer modernists les cocus du vieil art moderne, the cuckolds of old modern art. Dali flew into such flak right from the beginning of his career: in 1929 the avant-gardist critic Efstratios Teriade complained that Dali's talent was "the precise opposite of those qualities which make a painter." But without the power granted by illusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Two Faces Of Dali | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

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