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The hour-and-a-half of Stomp consists of a seamlessly interwoven series of such acts. All have their basic conception in common--the creation of dynamic sound and movement from strong bodies and everyday objects--but there's surprising variety among those numbers. One long-haired, bandanna-wearing cast...

Author: By Susannah R. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eat This, Michael Flatley: 'Stomp' Rolls In | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

American acting, for Stewart carried the image of America, at least as the nation once fancied itself: rural, righteous, ornery, stubborn in its idealism, never picking a fight and never backing away from one. To look at his scarecrow physique and the long, gawky strides, as if he were making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A WONDERFUL FELLA: JAMES STEWART, 1908-1997 | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

It may also have been the dumbest. Most of the mink were babies--many of them unweaned and unable to live for long without their mother. The rest were typically ornery, aggressive adult mink that had been raised in captivity and didn't know enough to scatter into the hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BLOOD AND FUR | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

The gookum-like lava is less smothering than the plot cliches: our hero (Tommy Lee Jones) and his perpetually hysterical child (Gaby Hoffmann), ever blundering into catastrophe; the spiky geologist (Anne Heche) who has to exclaim "Oh, God!" 46 times; silliest of all, the ornery whites and blacks who when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: IT LAVAS L.A. | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

MOVIES . . . VOLCANO: "We're pretty sure that Nostradamus predicted a pre-millennial Hollywood plague of natural-disaster movies," says TIME's Richard Corliss. Last year, 'Twister;' this fall, 'The Flood.' In February, 'Dante?s Peak' sent small-town folk scurrying from their local Vesuvius; now Mick Jackson?s 'Volcano' has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Entertainment Guide | 4/18/1997 | See Source »

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