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...believe it or not, is played for laughs (in one scene the pair smash a skeleton to smithereens), but McDonagh's comedy, unlike Lonergan's, never seems pasted on, or patronizing. We never lose sight of the dark drama beneath it: the harrowing picture of human beings driven half-mad by lives of crabbed, inbred isolation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway and Beyond | 3/16/2001 | See Source »

...Ambon? When the Dayaks carved out the hearts and heads of their victims, was this the kind of tribal blood sport that would have proliferated in Indonesia had former President Suharto not exerted an iron grip on the nation for most of its history? Are all sorts of mad and destructive behaviors ready to rise now that Indonesia's state structures seem to be collapsing? Or how about this for a troubling prospect: Is Indonesia actually carving out its own heart by giving autonomy to the provinces and districts under legislation that took effect on Jan. 1?a legal initiative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Darkest Season | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...home dental kits b) poetry c) cheaper but mad-cowier burgers d) remaining bits of Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Mar. 12, 2001 | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...would go to bed early, get all the hours of sleep a growing boy needed, and then get up in time for the movie by setting my alarm clock. Basically my parents sympathized, so it wasn't that hard to strike a deal; my father was as movie-mad as myself, sometimes taking us to two or three double features in a single week. (I used to feel sorry for other kids when I talked about Clint Eastwood's spaghetti Westerns or "Dr. No" or "North by Northwest" and find that they didn't have a clue what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monkey On My Back | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

...Miami. Now Michele (not her real name) is "finally starting life" at age 26. "But please don't use my name," she says in a hushed but heavy voice. "I don't want people here to know this about me. And I don't want my aunt to get mad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Haitian Bondage | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

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