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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Anthony Mann westerns of the '50s--taut epics like Bend of the River and The Man from Laramie--in which Stewart often played a bitter Moses leading settlers to the far country he could never call home? Or the slick rural attorney in Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder, a little too comfortable with the trial's lurid voyeurism? Or the hero of Hitchcock's Vertigo, a broken gent for whom an obsession with a corpse is the most fulfilling romantic release? Or the frontier lawyer in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, uneasy with the heroic legends printed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A WONDERFUL FELLA: JAMES STEWART, 1908-1997 | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

...Brentwood, Calif.--the first confirmed squeegee-guy sighting I've heard of since this whole thing started. It raises the possibility that the squeegee guys, having heard of the O.J. case, are moving out to Brentwood on the theory that a jurisdiction that lets someone get away with murder couldn't be hard on people who wash windshields with filthy rags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMEAR WINDOW | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

...hard to imagine RICHARD GERE turning down the chance to work on Red Corner, a movie in which he gets to act and be an activist too. Gere, silvering up nicely at 47, plays a lawyer who finds himself accused of rape and murder while in China. If you're thinking of this as an opportunity for the longtime Tibetan activist to educate his fans on the peculiarities of the Chinese judicial system, you're on the right track. Director Jon Avnet says that several Chinese judges and lawyers put themselves at risk to be consultants on the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 14, 1997 | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

...word "surrealism" to mean anything bizasrre, strange or unusal, and enforcers of consensus reality, determined to pull the noose they have slipped around the throat of the imagination ever tighter, make ever stricter what can be defined as "normal." This debasement is symptomatic of the scheme to murder interest in authentic surrealism through the promotion of its counterfeits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Face/Off not a surrealist film | 7/11/1997 | See Source »

...Hunter quickly adds that because other leads and tips continue to pour in, the solution to the six-month-old case of the tiny six-year-old beauty queen's murder "might be someplace else," outside the 13,000 pages. "The obvious focus," he emphasizes, continues to be on JonBenet's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, "but not the sole focus." The prosecutor cautions that "our job, since we don't know the truth, is to keep an open mind, not to have some kind of tunnel vision and certainly not to try to cram evidence into some pet theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: SOLVING JONBENET'S MURDER BY THE BOOK | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

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