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...Mummy's computer whizzes had generated something fresh, but it's pretty much shape-shifting and meteorological anomalies as usual. These batter into senselessness the wan efforts, led by Brendan Fraser as the chief tomb robber, to impart a sort of cheeky, Indiana Jonesish air to this hopelessly overwrought and deeply dopey movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Mummy | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...could have been ripped wholesale from a Z-grade movie-of-the-week. The cheap psychology is necessary to the comedy, but it gets bogged down in its own lack of depth. Paul's cathartic moments feel as if they were intended to be touching, but, weepy and overwrought, they succeed onlyin being stupid...

Author: By John W. Baxindine, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Analyze This Movie | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...Tristan und Isolde, and takes its cues from the tristesse (and orchestrational largesse) of that monster. In the version Strauss sought to depict, it is not a statue-come-to protagonist's own self loathing that brings on the brimstone. You can look forward to otherworldly brass writing and overwrought, saturated textures. For a first course, it is heavy fare...

Author: By Matt A. Carter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HRO Suits Up for Junior Parents | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...anguished relationship. Among the highlights is a rare interview with Dorothy Rodham, Hillary's mom, who sheds light on the First Lady's seemingly superhuman stoicism: "She is a very sensitive person. But she is able not to overemotionalize it...She doesn't go into one of these horribly overwrought kinds of tizzies." Adds Mom: "That's one thing I never did, either." Sheehy reports that the post-Monica healing process is far from over, quoting a source close to the couple who says Hillary has yet to forgive Bill fully. Sheehy's verdict on the marriage: If everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Couple | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...anguished relationship. Among the highlights is a rare interview with Dorothy Rodham, Hillary's mom, who sheds light on the First Lady's seemingly superhuman stoicism: "She is a very sensitive person. But she is able not to overemotionalize it ? She doesn't go into one of these horribly overwrought kinds of tizzies." Adds Mom: "That's one thing I never did, either." Sheehy reports that the post-Monica healing process is far from over, quoting a source close to the couple who says Hillary has yet to forgive Bill fully. Sheehy's verdict on the marriage: If everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill and Hill: Once More On the Public Couch | 1/3/1999 | See Source »

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