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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This movie was not even given the benefit of bitchiness that The Craft had going for it. Where Neve Campbell and company reveled in their magic, Bullock tries to repress it, downplaying her powers in order to fit in. Kidman does her best to portray the bad girl who uses her magic for fun, but such a sickly sweet Bullock offsets her. Kidman walks into Bullock's attempts to create a normal life in smalltown New England, saying things like, "Hang on to your husbands, ladies." But we end up feeling sorry for Kidman instead of rejoicing in her power...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sleepover Slump: `Magic' Fails to Charm | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

...title your article "The Sword of Islam," and why use the metaphor of Pakistani rulers "waving the scimitar of Islam" [WORLD, Sept. 28], unless the intent is to portray all forms of Muslim political activism as stridently militant? It is wrong to perpetuate such crude stereotypes. Pakistan is a country in which a politically and religiously diverse populace is struggling for its survival in the face of many serious challenges. You could have given your readers probing insights into how the country is faring on all these fronts and how the different political appeals to so-called Islam are being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 19, 1998 | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...tremendous boost because of the wayCellucci is trying to portray Scott as atax-and-spend liberal," said Ed Cafasso, aHarshbarger spokesperson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cellucci, Harshbarger Vie For Election's Undecided Votes | 10/13/1998 | See Source »

This ballet is a dynamic combination of acting, technique and artistry requiring the ballerina to be both technically strong and artistically mature in order to individualize and portray what is one of the most difficult and most legendary scenes in ballet--Giselle's mad scene at the end of the first...

Author: By Christiana Briggs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World in Boston Ballet's `Giselle' | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...every lipstick stain they stumble home with, and though most men's houses don't contain a press room, most men do have far more stringent monitors: their wives and girlfriends. What's more, most men's wives are considerably more intuitive than Hillary Clinton, whom presidential spinners portray as perhaps the last voting-age American to realize that Bill's late nights in the office weren't all spent fine-tuning the defense budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What The Guys Think: Clinton's A Screw-Up | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

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