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AFTER HIS SPECTACULAR DEBUT LAST YEAR WITH boyz n the Hood, director JOHN SINGLETON was asked what sort of film he would make next. "A masterpiece," said the young tyro. Not according to insiders who have seen a rough cut of Singleton's latest, Poetic Justice, starring Janet Jackson and rapper Tupac Shakur. The audience turned thumbs down when Columbia Pictures held a test screening last month. Singleton lately has been reshooting some scenes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bored in The Hood | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

...heist. It offers analysis of both Madonna (who "exploits her sexuality on her own terms; that means she names the price") and the Madonna ("She has a nice personality; she's also the Mother of God"). It has outlaws and in- laws. It's got tough guys waxing poetic and stupid guys acting tough. If Clint Eastwood were to play all the roles in a Woody Allen movie, it would sound like this: a flinty reading of home truths after the home burned down. "There's no such thing as adventure," the robber says. "No such thing as romance. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adding Kick To the Chic | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

...Denver: This was unexpectedly an anticlimax; the predicted five inches of snow turned out to be only a light dusting, and the crowd, though intense, was small. In a poetic sense, the 13-month Clinton odyssey should have ended in Albuquerque before finally heading home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Final 48 Hours | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

...polemical purposes, any rough sketch of a cartoon African carrying a crate next to a white with a topee and a gun can be turned into a "devastating" indictment of colonialism -- but this doesn't make Basquiat into an artist with an articulate social vision. As for his poetic effusions and snatches of writing, they are mostly fey blither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Purple Haze of Hype | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

...poetic. Red vs. Green. Stop vs. Go. Danger vs. All Clear...

Author: By John B. Trainer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dartmouth Express Derailed | 10/27/1992 | See Source »

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