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...floor. I thought we were going to explode. At that point, I said, 'Well, it's all over.' The next thing that happened is that I ended up sitting in my seat on my side. I looked up and I could see the grass. I said, 'Thank you, Lord,' unbuckled my seat belt and jumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like a Wall of Napalm | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...tells the story of a pacifist band of petit bourgeois cats who have formed the Royal Society for the Protection of Rats and have been rearing a young orphan mouse. The plot concerns the ill-starred triangle of Tom (Baritone Scott Reeve), Minette (Soprano Inga Nielsen) and her husband Lord Puff (Tenor Michael Myers). Seeing the fatal outcome of the affair, the mouse Louise wisely decides not to rely on the professed good intentions of natural enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: When the Style Is No Style | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...altar-boy type with what looks like chalk dust in his hair to make him look middle-aged) is another of Cimino's righteous madmen, a police captain brought in to clean up New York City's Chinatown. It is an uphill battle, against inscrutable thugs, a silky tong lord (John Lone), a TV reporter (the incompetent actress Ariane) and preposterous dialogue by Cimino and Oliver Stone. Soporific when it is not offensive, Year of the Dragon may some day engender a confessional memoir from Dino De Laurentiis, who was gullible enough to produce this crime against film. He could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Guess Who Flunked the IQ Test? | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...them hopping from way station to way station. Young Wilfrid, the eternal transfer student, felt like a newspaper tossed on a lawn. Not even when he was struck by polio at the age of 1 3 did his parents slow down their perpetual motion in the service of the Lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pied Publishers | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...sequoia born when the local mail came by Pony Express. The Midland band played Dixie. Young drill teams strutted: the dancers had the tendony legs of Appaloosas--and orthodontia that cost the earth. A student gave the prayer over the loudspeaker: "Thanks for getting us here O.K., Lord, and I just pray you let the boys play without any harm to anyone, and I just pray everyone plays to the best of their abilities with the talents you've given them, and I just pray you give everyone a safe journey home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: The Only Game in Town | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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