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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mark, may also contain scraps of genuine memory, but lacking complete originals, we have only the shakiest grounds for assessing their reliability. The disappointing fact seems to be that most of the surviving New Testament Apocrypha arose in legitimate attempts to comprehend realities about which the canonical Gospels are mute, and any dogged attempt to read them is apt to leave the reader with one prime reaction--those 2nd and 3rd century Christian editors who decided on the final contents of the New Testament were, above all else, superb literary critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesus Of Nazareth Then And Now | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

Morton knows a great part when she sees one. The fact that Sweet and Lowdown's Hattie utters not a single word--the character is mute--was far from a deterrent for the ordinarily motor-mouthed Morton, who delivers a magnetically expressive performance opposite Sean Penn. "Hattie's so full of stuff: How can I convey all that she's thinking?" she says. "Learning lines is the easiest thing in the world. This was the hardest part I've ever played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Her Silence Is Golden | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

Indonesia is still in a very delicate state of recovery. It has passed its first democratic test, but it faces enormous economic problems, and its sense of self is fragmented at best. The eccentric pairing of the blind cleric and the mute princess will not enjoy a long honeymoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia's Odd Couple | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...demonstration of the cingulate cortex's importance to consciousness, Damasio recalls a patient he calls L. After a comparatively minor stroke, she became bedridden, lying utterly still and mute for six months even though her physical condition seemed to suggest she could have resumed her daily life. During her ordeal, she later told Damasio, she felt absolutely no desire to speak or move. "Her mind," he says, "had not been imprisoned in the jail of her immobility. Instead it appeared that there had not been much mind at all, and nothing that would resemble consciousness." It turned out that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mystery Of Consciousness | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...another dimension?--harboring fatal secrets. Scenarist Koepp (Jurassic Park) smoothly adapts a novel by Richard Matheson (What Dreams May Come) with vagrant similarities to The Sixth Sense. The payoff is relatively small change, but the setup is persuasive: a portrait of a blue-collar marriage in mute distress. And strap yourselves in for the spookiest, most imaginative hypnosis scene in movie memory. You are getting...very...scared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stir Of Echoes | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

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