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Clarice (Jodie Foster) is the hero of The Silence of the Lambs, a pretty sharp new thriller about a woman poised between two multiple murderers: one a sad sadist (Ted Levine) who flays his victims to "harvest their hides," the other an evil genius (Anthony Hopkins) who might be amused to help Starling solve the crimes. With or without him, she is bound to achieve her double mission. She will save a young woman whom a madman has put down a deep hole, and she will prove herself up to doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA | 2/18/1991 | See Source »

That's the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME!!!" in inch-high scrawl--it only brings out the sadist in us. Don't (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic scripts so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points if you can hack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply: `It Is Time to Disillusion' | 1/16/1991 | See Source »

That's the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME" in inch-high scrawl--it only brings out the sadist in us. Don't (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single blue-book finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic scripts so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra if you can hack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 8/14/1990 | See Source »

THAT'S the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME!!!" in inch-high scrawl--it only brings out the sadist in us. Don't (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single blue-book finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points if you can hack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

...murder is a vocation. He is compelled to do it and does it well, but the job gives him little pleasure. Only his friend Otis (Tom Towles) feels the thrill of the kill. Otis is the sickest person in the movie; he takes to torture like a born-again sadist. Only his sweet sister Becky (Tracy Arnold) has much hope of touching poor Henry. She will be his best hope or his last victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: X Marks the Top | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

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