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Rampage," Director William Friedkin's new docu-thriller, shocks, oversteps and sometimes rages through its one hundred minutes of playing time. Delivering both more and less than it promises, "Rampage" is at times a nightmarish journey into the world of a serial killer, at times a philosophical exploration of the issues surrounding the death penalty, the insanity defense and violent crime...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: AN EYE FOR AN EYE: "Rampage" Shows the Horror of Murder | 10/29/1992 | See Source »

Poignant, Picturesque and Berserk: Northern Indian Paintings and Objects of the 17th through 19th Centuries. Through Oct. 4. More than 25 paintings, drawings and objects from the Mughai and Rajput courts and from British India. Varying from the nightmarish to the comical and from the serious to the satirical, the show highlights the unusual in Indian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT HARVARD | 10/1/1992 | See Source »

...return to political service, then a smooth glide to Houston for joyous coronation by a united Republican Party. Maybe the convention week will go that way. But in the first half of the Republican fortnight, the President seemed unable to awake from what is turning out to be a nightmarish fight for re-election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Turbulent Approach Coming into Houston | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

...47th National Summer Candy Exposition, recently held in the Hynes Convention Center, the nightmarish goodies were out in full force: Mega Warheads, tear Jerkers, Cry Babies. feeding off the success of the movie "Terminator 2," was "T2--The Ultimate Jawbreaker," which has a hot endocore center. That's right, a hot endocore center. This is not a science project. It's something to ingest...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: We're in for Some Nasty Candies | 7/28/1992 | See Source »

...There's something about the KRONOS QUARTET that has long made musical purists uneasy. If it's not the musicians' a la mode fashion statements, it's their extravagantly eclectic repertoire: from George Crumb's nightmarish Black Angels to the artless tangos of Astor Piazzolla and Jimi Hendrix's protopsychedelic Purple Haze, their trademark encore. The group's latest Elektra Nonesuch CD, PIECES OF AFRICA, finds the Kronos wandering even farther afield. A potent new brew of folk influences, Minimalism and European forms by eight black, brown and white African composers, the music ranges from the irrepressible Mai Nozipo (Mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Out of Africa | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

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