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Minnesota in the winter of 1949 is a world where everyone knows his place, and that place is often church, where proprieties are observed and secrets have a charge. Richard and Sarah MacEwan are a sweet-natured, guilt-edged couple held together by custom, affection and a devotion as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: BETWEEN DUTY AND DESIRE | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

As comic premises go, this is not exactly a world-beater. But soon enough, the keepers--gentle souls all--are funnily up in arms defending their pets. A wandering tarantula motivates a genteel striptease, and the mean mogul gets his comeuppance. The script, by Cleese and Iain Johnstone, lacks Wanda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ANIMAL RITES | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

For much of the play, things run smoothly, as the audience absorbs any information it can in order to figure out this rearranged murder mystery: a birth mystery, asking why Ruth and Anna needed to create such fantasies. The childlike wonder of their imagination when faced with Peter's good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sitcom Schizophrenia Seizes HRDC | 10/3/1996 | See Source »

Although not the best of Jackie Chan, "Supercop" nonetheless offers dizzying, cartoonish action in the usual atmosphere of good-natured mediocrity. Since by many standards the film, actually the third in a series, might be considered bad, the way to approach it is by striking a deal: the movie won...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chan's Physical Antics Give 'Supercop' a Scrappy Appeal | 8/6/1996 | See Source »

The Doles have always endured good-natured ribbing about the antitrust implications of so powerful a merger as theirs, but those barbs seemed real when Dole was named Gerald Ford's running mate in 1976. Mrs. Dole took a leave from the ftc to campaign for him, and returned to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIDDY MAKES PERFECT | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

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