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...sacrament of elegance and fatalism. There's an entire movie--quite a bad one, full of unwontedly tortured acting and a wildly wrong camera style--called Smoke. That in turn spawned a companion film, the much better Blue in the Face, to be released in the fall. Both revel in the outlaw ecstasies of tobacco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE INDIE 500 | 8/28/1995 | See Source »

...Chinatown, you'll have to walkthrough the Combat Zone (T: orange line toChinatown). The Combat Zone is one place youdidn't want to visit unless you revel in dirtymovies, drug dealing and triple X-ratedpeep-shows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Is Old, So You Should Play Tourist | 6/24/1995 | See Source »

...plum pudding bars and fish pizzaiola which Harvard Dining Services purveys. We are easily stupefied by the most clever publication around. Like the couple in Don Delillo's White Noise, who make love only in the "style" of a certain century, Fifteen Minutes encourages us to revel in the pop cultural dross of Americana. What accounts for this phenomenon? How did it all happen...

Author: By Dan E. Markel, | Title: An Alternative Class Day Address | 6/7/1995 | See Source »

...critics assailed him for attacking Hollywood films and record lyrics on moral grounds. At a Los Angeles fund-raiser last night, Dole charged that "Hollywood's dream factories turn out nightmares of depravity." Dole said films likeOliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers"and Quentin Tarrantino's "True Romance" "revel in mindless violence and loveless sex," and urged film executives to emphasize family-oriented programming and products. He alsoattacked rap artistsin whose songs "sexual violence is given a catchy tune."Sarah Brady, chair of Handgun Control Inc., retorted that Dole, who supports arepeal of the assault weapons ban, is "completely misguided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOLE DEFENDS ATTACK ON HOLLYWOOD | 6/1/1995 | See Source »

...explained. Apparently Menu Man didn't know anything about the set-up. I was crushed, to say the least. Foiled by bureaucracy, again. I hadn't believed bureaucracy could touch the sacrosanct Menu Man. But nothing can keep us apart--one day, I shall speak with Him. I shall revel in His Word. Until that day, 5-5700 will have...

Author: By Pooja Bhatia, | Title: a Menu Man is Hard to Find | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

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