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There were pure meta-television moments. Early on, Clinton spear carrier, Representative Robert Wexler, said he had a rebuttal to impeachment gonzo Representative Bob Barr--but was saving it for an appearance that evening on Crossfire. Blurting it out at the hearing, he said, "wouldn't be fair to the program." The Minority Counsel prepared an America's Funniest Home Videos clip consisting of Ken Starr saying over and over that he couldn't recall, remember or recollect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Impeachment: Our Nattering Nabobs | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...OPPOSITE OF SEX A 16-year-old tramp seduces her gay half brother's lover, says she's pregnant and steals $10,000. Don Roos' Seven Characters in Search of a Spanking is pure modern romance: anguished, raunchy, caring. Praise be the entire cast and, what the heck, a Nobel Prize to Lisa Kudrow as a twisted spinster looking for love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Best of 1998 Cinema | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...IRAN'S WORLD CUP TEAM The upset of Brazil by France's ethnically diverse home team may have been the defining moment of the World Cup, but for pure excitement it was scrappy Iran trouncing the cocky U.S. team. Any game that, by the second half, persuaded some Americans to root for Iran has to be good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of 1998 Sports | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...family crests, but many seem to be sheer fantasy in the form of carps' tails, clamshells, whirlpools, morning glories, fans, bats' ears or crabs. A great example in this show purports to represent a mountain with two valleys, its surface covered with silver leaf, now blackened with age: pure sculpture for the head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Style Was Key | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...With the Wind, Star Wars, Forrest Gump and Hamlet), this is a coming-of-age story, a tale of youth pressed into troubled maturity during a national cataclysm. As for the film's basic plot--a bright misfit goes undercover to save his people from foreign domination--it's pure Mulan. You'll also find echoes of Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 essay in panoramic kitsch, The Ten Commandments (including the climactic Red Sea parting), and its Oscar-laden sibling, the 1959 Ben-Hur (including the chariot race). All are about two young men, raised as brothers, whose proud convictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can A Prince Be A Movie King? | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

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