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On another occasion, when the prosecution attempted to identify Williams as the figure in a videotaped scene, Faal countered that the man in the tape, who had a gap between his front teeth, could not be his client. To underscore his point, he asked Williams to go before the jury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Slap for a Broken Head | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

Ruben did interrupt the flow of the film when he overplayed the early moments of tension. If the whole audience knows from the start that Culkin plays an undercover killer, then it's none too tricky to produce tense moments auguring imminent disaster. Ruben dwells on each scary mask, toy...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, | Title: Killer Culkin | 10/7/1993 | See Source »

Mononychus may be the discovery of a lifetime. The turkey-size predator, ! with its mouthful of sharp teeth and long tail, looked quite similar to the theropods. Even so, says paleontologist Mark Norell, it shares a number of features with modern birds. "In Archaeopteryx, for example," he explains, "the fibula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rewriting the Book on Dinosaurs | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

Harvard undergraduates will immediately recognize the true nature of Alfred Appel Jr.'s Art of Celebration--it is essentially a Literature and Arts B Core course on 20th-century modernism. And like good old Lit. & Arts B, the plum of the Core requirement, it is full of pretty pictures, music...

Author: By J.c. Herz, | Title: Celebrating the Joy of Modern Arts | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

"Thesaurus" is a mouthful; it does not roll trippingly on the tongue. Nor do its plural forms, the highfalutin thesauri, or thesauruses, which sounds like a prehistoric creature. Thesaurus means treasury or storehouse, but nobody calls Nicholas Brady Secretary of the Thesaurus or says, "Dear, pack up your winter underwear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Satisfying Verbomania | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

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