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...John Ashcroft, and his protege John Anderton (Tom Cruise) run a system that prevents murders by arresting people before they commit them. Yet the Precrime apparatus is so goofily anach-ronistic--three young mind readers floating in a tank and billiard balls rolling through plastic tubes--that your brilliant, mad old uncle could have concocted it in his basement. This two-edged look fits with Spielberg's idea of marrying science fiction with film noir; this is a 50-years-ago detective story set 50 years from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Artificial Intelligence; Just Smart Fun: THE REVIEW | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

...thought what everybody else thought, that he was a creature of that [short] track." He was a creature all right. Baffert put War Emblem through a crash course in obedience, changing bits and using a tongue tie to keep him under control so that he wouldn't sprint like mad for the entire race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War Emblem: Unwanted, Unbeaten | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

...think the motives behind them are genuine and well-intentioned, but I think having metal detectors will slow things down,” Lau said. “Traditionally, it’s a tedious process and a mad dash...

Author: By Jenifer L. Steinhardt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Metal Detectors Guard Ceremonies | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

...ingenious rather than astounding. One of the reasons Vischer chose vegetables was that they didn't need arms, legs, hair or clothes, making the animation process much simpler. Initially he created a candy bar with eyes, "but my wife walked by and said, 'Moms are going to be mad if you make their kids fall in love with candy bars,'" he says. He moved the eyes to a cucumber and begat Larry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finding God in a Pickle | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

DIED. DAVE BERG, 81, longtime Mad magazine artist and creator of "The Lighter Side of..." comic strip; of cancer; in Marina del Rey, Calif. Unlike much of the raffish satire in Mad, Berg's strips took gentle jabs at absurdities of American life, such as naive car owners prone to getting conned by auto mechanics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 3, 2002 | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

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