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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good hour into the movie, you suddenly realize that people are creeping from one closed space to the next, from the Christmastime police beatings in prison cells onward. Into such a world populated by officers who would just as soon as bury a broken bottle in your neck as arrest you, Ed Exley (Guy Pearce) enters, a fresh-scrubbed "golden boy" with an absolute commitment to good. Exley is a little uncomfortable with the corner-cutting approach of the police chief Dudley Smith (James Cromwell), who dispenses tips on life with a thin smile that promises something violently wrong...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men in Blue: Slick Film Goes Behind Closed Doors | 9/19/1997 | See Source »

...with her husband David, designed the wedding gown. "It wasn't until she was walking up our narrow, winding stairs that I realized who it was. Then I was really, really nervous. But she made us feel at ease. I think she was wearing something with a frilly neck, a full skirt, and she was rather plump, quite shy and seemed to look out from under her bangs. The first time I met her, she needed a formal dress for an evening engagement with Prince Charles, so we went through the rails. We found a black dress that she looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN LIVING MEMORY | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

Sane, well-balanced celebrities accept their fame as part of their working life, but also an irrelevance and an intrusion and a pain in the neck. It is true that people live more comfortably with fame when they are confident that it is something they have earned by their own merit and hard work over a period of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NASTY FAUSTIAN BARGAIN | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

...then--as now--was St. Louis encephalitis, a nasty pathogen that at first causes nothing more serious than flulike symptoms but that eventually may cause fever, coma and occasionally death. The New York strain is the rarer but more dangerous Eastern equine encephalitis, a disease that begins with fever, neck stiffness and headaches and may culminate in a swelling of the brain that claims 30% of victims. No effective treatments are available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOSQUITOES GET DEADLY | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

After scoring a near best 79 (Vernon Jordan swears it) at the Vineyard's Farm Neck Golf Club on Monday (O.K., he did take three swings on the first hole, but they were practice drives, really), President Clinton doesn't seem to need much help. But as Americans, we want a President who plays the best darn game of golf possible, so TIME called in some experts for their advice. Below, Claude ("Butch") Harmon Jr.--famed swing doctor to Tiger Woods, Greg Norman and Davis Love III--gives his detailed suggestions for the presidential stroke. "The President has a decent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A FREE GOLF LESSON (WELL, $2.95) FOR THE PREZ | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

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