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...individual beta testers to send back their test results," said John E. Stafford '96, president of HCS. "The lure for them is that if they send them back, they will receive a copy of the new software." That copy will be worth about $100, Stafford said...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: 200 Students Test Drive New Software | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

...that means playing the spoiler. Each is a failed presidential candidate with no realistic chance to win the White House, but each muses about running under the right circumstances. For Jackson, those include a weakened President who continues to disappoint his party's left wing. For Perot, the lure would be the G.O.P.'s failure to keep its promise of revolutionary reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARTY OF SPOILERS | 3/13/1995 | See Source »

...vanquisher of Jurassic Park at the nation's box office? Partly because director Lee Tamahori's film shows why people who hurt each other still stay together-for love, oh, toxic love. But Warriors, written by Riwia Brown from a controversial novel by Alan Duff, also has the lure of ethnographic exoticism: Jake and Beth, their kids and friends are Maori, members of New Zealand's indigenous people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOXIC LOVE | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

...Auckland, New Zealand, leave their scars -- as do Jake's fists, when too much liquor primes the rage within him. Why, then, has "Once Were Warriors" become New Zealand's all-time homemade hit? TIME critic Richard Corliss says director Lee Tamahori's film combines "toxic love" with "the lure of ethnographic exoticism." The characters are Maori, dispossessed chieftains and princesses now confined to gray city slums. "The film is a social tragedy, observed in love and pain," Corliss says. "'By the end, 'Once Were Warriors' has left an ache in your heart, a hole in your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES . . . "ONCE WERE WARRIORS" | 2/24/1995 | See Source »

...Auckland, New Zealand, leave their scars -- as do Jake's fists, when too much liquor primes the rage within him. Why, then, has "Once Were Warriors" become New Zealand's all-time homemade hit? TIME critic Richard Corliss says director Lee Tamahori's film combines "toxic love" with "the lure of ethnographic exoticism." The characters are Maori, dispossessed chieftains and princesses now confined to gray city slums. "The film is a social tragedy, observed in love and pain," Corliss says. "'By the end, 'Once Were Warriors' has left an ache in your heart, a hole in your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES . . . "ONCE WERE WARRIORS" | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

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