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...Love and War" has arrived, for better or worse, as an acceptable romance story, set against a beautifully done backdrop of a world war. But notably absent from this picture is any bona fide sense of Hemingway, as O'Donnell and Sandra Bullock with somewhat disturbing success dilute and plain-vanilla the story into submission...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: O'Donnell Too Small for Hemingway's Shoes | 1/30/1997 | See Source »

With its ramshackle wooden houses sporting pastel trims that stick out in a light dusting of snow, their new working-class Jamaica Plain neighborhood almost seems like Cambridge...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, | Title: Rent Control's Demise: A Tale of Two Families | 1/29/1997 | See Source »

...Kids' experiences in Jamaica Plain stand in marked contrast to his own childhood in Cambridge. Hill became known around the city in the early 1970s as a gifted athlete...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, | Title: Rent Control's Demise: A Tale of Two Families | 1/29/1997 | See Source »

...plain English, fund lovers, that means the vast majority of you, through fees levied against your funds, have been paying professionals for the privilege of earning subpar returns. That's only supposed to happen in baseball. Last year just 25% of stock funds matched the S&P 500. In 1995 the number was a pitiful 16%, and in 1994 it was 23%, according to Lipper Analytical Services. If fund managers simply threw darts at a stock table, you'd expect more to match the benchmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUR FUND IS NOT UP TO PAR | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

...reassemble the key zanies of A Fish Called Wanda: Kevin Kline, all ego and libido and stupid schemes; John Cleese, all British pomp, phlegm and cluelessness; Jamie Lee Curtis, still innocent of the effect her form encased in a tight dress can have on impressionable males; Michael Palin, just plain innocent, but with his former stammer replaced now by another verbal disability--logorrhea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ANIMAL RITES | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

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