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...with the American public, not just because it is full of the yearning sentimentality that has flooded into real life today--for there is a connection between Burne-Jones' semisacrificial English virgins, each one a Flower Beneath the Foot, and the emetically mawkish victim-cult of the late Princess Diana--but because its artfulness evokes intense nostalgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Escapist's Dreamworld | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

...moon-princess luster, she is the heir to Winona Ryder. As an icon of indie film, she's a teen Parker Posey. But don't waste comparisons on Christina Ricci. At 18, she is her own, clever young actress grown up onscreen from the gothic child playing with dead things in Casper and The Addams Family to the buxom blond in The Opposite of Sex. "I love her access to her dark places," says Sex auteur Don Roos. "There's a very mature, adult mind behind that childlike face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nicely Naughty | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

There have always been conflicts and hatreds between brothers--Cain and Abel, for example. There will always be a Jewish nation, divided or not [WORLD, May 11]. Leave the Jews to settle their differences by themselves. The press has helped destroy a princess, and is working to bring down the American President. Is the state of Israel next? LARA SAUER, age 16 Johannesburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 8, 1998 | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...this is to say nothing of TV's power to bring us real-life events: a moon walk or the Olympics, an uprising in Tiananmen Square or Princess Diana's funeral. We conduct not only a lot of our fantasy lives on TV but also our political campaigns (and sometimes it's hard to tell which is which). From the Persian Gulf in 1991, we learned that global TV can even be a means of waging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Right Before Our Eyes | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...percent certainty" that the British Secret Service killed Diana and his son. A recent UK TV documentary suggesting the French Secret Service were responsible got a critical roasting. Barring some last-minute revelation on the role of photographers, a measure of closure is about to be brought to the Princess's demise. Another tragic incident of DWI -- case closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diana Death Probe Confrontation | 6/5/1998 | See Source »

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