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...most amazing journey of all was taken by COURTNEY LOVE. Last year she was still rock's open wound. Tread-marked and track-marked, widow of Kurt Cobain and primal scream of the rock band Hole, she was the id other rockers warmed their instruments against. This year she's Audrey Hepburn. O.K., not quite. But for her sizable performance in The People vs. Larry Flynt, in which she played Flynt's formidable and doomed wife Althea, a druggy ex-stripper, Love won the New York Film Critics Circle Award as Best Supporting Actress. Last month the same woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE CLASS OF 1996? | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

Currier diners let out a primal scream a few weeks early during last Sunday's dinner. The fun began when one table began clapping, apparently in response to a humorous comment. Immediately, other tables followed suit, and soon nearly everyone in the dining hall was clapping. The noisemaking increased, however, as students began yelling, screaming and making up table cheers. One table engaged in a "Penis War," in which participants progressively escalated their volume levels while shouting the word "penis." Several minutes into the revelry, one table's diners stood up and began to do the wave. Dining hall workers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIDBITS | 4/19/1997 | See Source »

...generic Harvard experience is preppy, snooty and New Englandy, few will miss it. But we should all graduate with some sense of having gone to the same institution, having shared some of the same memories, having more in common than having gone to the Harvard-Yale game and the Primal Scream...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: The Bottom Line | 4/10/1997 | See Source »

Buddhism has as many paradises as there are Buddhas. Each enlightened being has his or her own heaven, a concept probably borrowed from Hinduism, in which gods and goddesses inhabit a series of heavens. The primal heaven, however, was probably the one called Sukhavati, which may itself have borrowed some elements from the florid paradises of Zoroastrian Persia (whence the word pairi-daeza, or enclosure, the origin of our word paradise). As Sakyamuni, the Buddha of our cosmos, teaches, if the denizens of Sukhavati "desire cloaks of different colors and many hundred thousand colors, then with these very best cloaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OTHER FAITHS, OTHER VISIONS | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...Will Win: McDormand plays the more likable character, and her work in Lone Star and Primal Fear cemented a solid year. Still, don't count Blethyn...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, | Title: AND THE Winner Is... | 3/20/1997 | See Source »

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