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...good works range from sending in a SWAT team of tree experts to try to save Austin's beloved old Treaty Oak after some nut poisoned it (tree died anyway) to quietly helping the families of MIAS and other veterans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Billionaire Boy Scout: ROSS PEROT | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

...presents Chucklehead, Squid, Militex 1000, and Slow Poke Feb. 21 and Left Nut, Orangutang, The Balls, and The Barnies Feb. 22.528 Comm Ave., Kenmore Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Everywhere But Harvard | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

What profit political correctness if you've got a nut case for a nanny? That, in essence, is the issue confronting Claire and Michael Bartel (Annabella Sciorra and Matt McCoy), exemplary citizens of that citadel of the new civic punctiliousness, Seattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ultimate Other Woman | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

...kinsmen, some Russian nationalists might try to seize other republics' territory. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the head of the spectacularly misnamed Liberal Democratic Party, has even made claims against Poland and Finland on the grounds that they once belonged to the Czars. You're not likely to dismiss Zhirinovsky as a nut case if you're a Pole, a Finn -- or one of the 6 million Russians who voted for him in the republic's presidential election last June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

...Emmanuelle Beart), as she poses for his first painting in years, is a disinterested kind of sexual harassment for art's sake. These sittings, a seduction on canvas, fill more than half of Jacques Rivette's four-hour La Belle Noiseuse. The phrase is loosely translated as "the beautiful nut case," but Frenhofer, not Marianne, is the genial lunatic: a man of the world who is a mad monk for his art. In his atelier the two act out a primal ritual of man appraising, adoring, subjugating and re-creating woman. This glamorous film, which won second prize at this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Seduction on Canvas | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

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