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...they had a purple mother-of-the-bride plus-size suit. The director still insisted that I wear it!i she recalls. iThey stuck a million pins all over it, stuffed the top, and put me in six-inch heels so that it didnit drag the ground. Needless to say, it looked terrible.i...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: fm dial | 2/24/2000 | See Source »

...Apocalypse Now. Richard descends, or rather soars, into savagery. This handsomely made film--as attentive to Nature's predatory beauty as any film since Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line--goes a bit nuts, along with him. It sheds plausibility like a snakeskin, even as it accrues a needless cinematheque of references: to The Lord of the Flies, The Sheltering Sky, The Deer Hunter. It renounces the audience's complicities when it needs them most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Beach Boy | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...sure who's quicker to disown the other--Harvard or Keyes. "Just a joke," Keyes explains. But he says most conservatives forgive him for his Harvard background rather than embrace him for it. And while he comes back once in a while to visit classes and speak, Harvard, needless to say, has not offered much of a student support base...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: This Man Is Running For President: What Alan Keyes Learned at Harvard | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

Perhaps it is better to take the money out of the hands of the fanatical and put them in the hands of airlines, hotels and restaurants, but a lot of needless worry and government expenditure could have been diverted if the church had just recognized the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of its Savior on time...

Author: By Benjamin D. Grizzle and Stephen E. Sachs, STEPHEN E. SACHS AND BENJAMIN D. GRIZZLES | Title: Dartboard | 1/7/2000 | See Source »

...duty and right. To follow through with the execution of John Coffey would be to kill an innocent man - yet there is nothing that he can legally do to prevent it. Edgecomb himself expresses fear of damnation, for how could God forgive him for killing one of his messengers? Needless to say, Edgecomb's emotional turmoil is palpable, and his final decision forever impacts his life...

Author: By By RICHARD Ho, | Title: A Man, a Mouse, a Mile, Panama | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

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