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In the past month there have been two cases of children killing children: the school slaying in Arkansas, where two 14-year-old boys shot their classmates because they were bitter about romantic rejection, and the most recent case of Andrew Wurst in north-west Pennsylvania. Wurst, a 14-year...

Author: By Caille M. Millner, | Title: Complicit In Crime | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

In his life he was compared (often by himself) to an eagle, a titan, an ogre, a monster; to Homer, Shakespeare, Dante and Cervantes. He wrote enormous, turbulent, dark novels, two of which (Les Miserables and Notre-Dame de Paris, known in English as The Hunchback of Notre Dame) in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sublime Windbag | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

He sings chorales, declaims a scene from Hamlet and very persuasively fakes a suicide. He is a dutiful son and a shameless stud, a romantic egotist and sometimes a little boy lost. Few movies offer a performer the opportunity to let his talents cascade forth in the breathless rush that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: And As For The Movie... | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

Technique becomes especially important when it comes to finessing social situations, such as potential romances. The H-bomb seems to have a curious effect on romantic interests. Even trying to assess whether the effect is positive or negative may sometimes be difficult. Most agree that it works in different ways...

Author: By Pam Wasserstein, | Title: On the Town | 4/24/1998 | See Source »

It's a nice muddle, especially since Wasserstein provides the couple with all kinds of complications. She has rich, interfering relatives (Alan Alda and the divinely bitchy Allison Janney). He soon has a new gay flame (Amo Gulinello) whose worldly-wise longtime companion (wonderfully portrayed by Nigel Hawthorne) gets hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mixed Doubles | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

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