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Since Ken Starr and the House Republicans ended the year more unpopular than Clinton, the G.O.P. also needs to distance itself from its obsession with dislodging the President. Conservative activists maintain that there was no way to sidestep impeachment. "The conservative base would have imploded," says Ralph Reed, onetime head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Rules of The Road | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

Shakespeare also showcased Powell's obsession with detail. In the film, the dressing gown worn by Gwyneth Paltrow appears to be festooned with iridescent jewels--but they are actually dried beetle wings, intended to replicate Elizabethan materials. When Paltrow's character pretends to be a boy, she wears a top...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Designing Woman | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

To the extent that De Hooch made allegories of virtue at all, he certainly didn't try to shove them down the viewer's throat. His morality was all sympathy; he wasn't in any direct way a preacher. But in a time and place that put the strongest emphasis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pieter de Hooch: Visionary Homebody | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

So between this emphasis and the movie's other major sticking point--the challenge of genuinely articulating our existence--a key event becomes Eddie's reaction to a certain note left behind by a friends who, well went away for a long trip. The note is one sentence long and...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hurlyburly: Revisiting the 80s | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

Proudly displaying his nine RATM T-shirts, poster-encrusted Greenough suite and collected discography, Thomas stakes his claim as the group's "biggest fanatic." The obsession began during his sophomore year of high school. It grew when he wrote a 20-page research paper on the 1994 Zapatista rebellion, a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

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