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Mary Jo Salter's poems at first seem to be simple description. She paints objects for us: the French countryside, a child's handmade magnet, a rainbow, a movie. Pretty collections of words, aesthetically pleasing. You seem to just slip over them, letting the images slide in and out of...

Author: By Lauren M. Hult, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hello? It's Elemenary, My Dear | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

Rush Hour won Jackie Chan a lot of friends. They'll want to catch this re-released 1992 comedy in which he plays twins separated at birth; one becomes a famous conductor, the other a rowdy mechanic. Add two girlfriends and some triad intrigue, and you have one of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Twin Dragons | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

The son of a Bavarian industrialist, Mengele joined the Nazi Party in the 1930s and began studying the sham science of "racial hygiene." In 1943 he became medical chief at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he sent more than 400,000 non-Aryan prisoners to the gas chambers. On the side, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cranks... Villains... ...And Unsung Heroes | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

Obviously tired, Sebadoh was not prepared for the raucousness of the crowd at the Roxy. Tired of chanting at the radio, people took the pauses between songs as opportunities to shout at Lou and Jason. Answering sometimes, Jason finally stated dryly, "Alright, people from Boston shouting." But like an irreverent...

Author: By Marcelline Block, AND CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Visual Arts and Music | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

Obviously tired, Sebadoh was not prepared for the raucousness of the crowd at the Roxy. Tired of chanting at the radio, people took the pauses between songs as opportunities to shout at Lou and Jason. Answering sometimes, Jason finally stated dryly, "Alright, people from Boston shouting." But like an irreverent...

Author: By Marcelline Block, AND CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Visual Arts and Music | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

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