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With its forays into Manhattan's Washington Square Park for lessons in chess from a sympathetic father figure (here it's the always authoritative Samuel L. Jackson), the movie might aim to be a Searching for Bobby Fischer in the Hood. But Fresh is so much more: a really good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: The Little Movies That Could | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

The new album was shaped by top-flight producers, including Babyface (who's worked with Toni Braxton and Madonna) and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (the masterminds of Janet Jackson's rise to megastardom). Every song on II is about love and is performed at mid-tempo; the whole enterprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POP: Boyz II Men: No Grunge, No Gangstas | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

Carrey doesn't distinguish between action and dialogue; he is hyper doing both. He can turn the simple act of listening into power aerobics. His laser stare becomes maniacally penetrating; turning to hear a question, he nearly gives himself whiplash. Then he speaks, with an overbearing precision that suggests Maxwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: World's Only Living Toon | 8/8/1994 | See Source »

At first, the faint buzzing blends in with the crisp notes and trills of Glenn Gould's recording of Bach's "Prelude in C Minor." Perhaps the tape is a bad copy, or the stereo is acting up again. Then the distracting noise grows louder, more insistent, until it can...

Author: By Susan S. Lee, | Title: Girard and Feore Show the Infinite Varieties of Gould | 7/15/1994 | See Source »

In a stadium as steamy as a Turkish bath, Navratilova parried top-spin forehands with crisp volleys. Martinez responded by hitting passing shots with precision; they found the lines unerringly. Martinez won the first set 6-4. Navratilova was leading 3-0 in the second set when Martinez called a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: Last Waltz At Wimbledon | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

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