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...film's images that seize the memory. You won't soon forget the bleached radiance of a seaside wedding reception, the shadows caressing Dona Leonor on her midnight raid to smash dwarf statues on a nearby lawn, the face of a girl who wonders if she is the pawn of a lady's possessiveness or the beneficiary of a gentleman's genial lust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Small Wonder | 10/10/1994 | See Source »

West Plains, Missouri -- A man attempting to pawn a stolen bracelet was apprehended earlier this month when the pawn shop owner recognized the jewelry -- it was his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smart Criminals, Foolish Choices | 9/26/1994 | See Source »

...bear to omit any of his research. But his approach prevents Wyatt Earp from developing a compelling dramatic arc, and it doesn't help a rather glum and withdrawn Kevin Costner make the eponymous protagonist into a dynamic or even very attractive figure. Mostly he is fate's pawn, grimly enduring one damn thing after another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Shoot-Out At the Zz | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

...weeks under the guard of 300 monks and 400 combat-ready Europeans from a militant Buddhist school run by a Danish ex- boxer. Meanwhile, each side has hinted darkly that the other may have engineered the fatal 1992 car crash; each claims that the other may be a pawn of the Chinese. Shamar says of his rival regent, "Tai Situ is degenerate, and the people around him are like, why . . . like gangsters." Members of the opposing camp like to point out that the name of the troublemaking demon behind the mayhem in the old prediction can be read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle of the Future Buddhas | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

...Ampersands "Postcards" 10. Sparkalepsy "Friendly Fire" 11. Cockpit "P. J. Party" 12. Bugskull "All Members Please Rise" 13. Seeds "Evil Hoo Poo" 14. Gaunt "Good Bad Happy Seed" 15. The Smiles "Lions on the Prowl" 16. King Loser "Dick Dale" 17. Neutral Milk Hotel "Everything Is" 18. Fat Day "Pawn Shop" 19. Victims "TV Addicts" 20. Hammerhead "Anvil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDERGROUND ROCK TOP 26 | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

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