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Sources tell Carney that by late last week, Clinton aides were still trying to convince the TV networks to give Clinton air time for the speech. The reason: Unless the White House assures them there will be a major, substantive announcement, they'll reject it as a pure politics.Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NO "HOT-AIR" TIME | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

...emotional reality of violence manage to penetrate more effectively in "Heavenly, Creatures" than in a dozen "Pulp Fictions," Peter Jackson's film may flail from giant butterflies to the prossic rituals of tea-time, but in the end he manages to concentrate all the diffuse energy into pure, gritty horror...

Author: By Natasha Wimmer, | Title: Heavenly Surprises in Murdering Mom | 12/8/1994 | See Source »

...Bertic Wooster. Tori Jueds is strong as the prim Rose Maybud, though one gets frustrated with her etiquette-obsessed, lightweight character. Rose is most interesting when interacting with her social opposite and some-time-fiance, the lusty sailor Richard, played on some evenings by Douglas Miller. Richard should be pure comic relief for the audience: a nautical libertine among the prim British. Unfortunately, although Miller's voice is strong and expressive, his stiff, blocky stage presence and emotionless facial expressions make him ill-suited to this comic role...

Author: By Joyelle H. Mcsweeney, | Title: Ruddigore--More Story, Less Time, Eh? | 12/8/1994 | See Source »

...been a second baseman to be charged, spiked and upended, is not going to drop the ball this time. It is a new experience for Ty Cobb. He has never encountered anything his psychopathic aggressiveness couldn't overwhelm. Tommy Lee Jones's utterly incautious performance -- he's pure attack dog -- permits his character a moment of naked panic. Then he looks in the mirror and accepts his fate, and calmly calls the hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Baseball's Evil Genius | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

...violence director, probably the best in the business right now. He discomfits a lot of people because he is always on the dangerous edge of aestheticizing psychopathically murderous behavior. It's a subject we prefer to see treated cartoonishly so that we can pretend our enjoyment of it is pure escapism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Slice and Dice | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

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