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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...floor joyride, seemingly heedless of Hollywood story conventions as it spins from one attractive group of actors to the next. When Polley disappears after 40 minutes, you may feel no one can take her place; then Diggs (our choice for Afro-fab star of the future) assumes center screen and is just as beguiling. Wolf is delightfully disdainful of getting an ear kiss from the narc's free-love wife: "And that ear thing. I have Q-Tips, thank you." Olyphant is also an accomplished hunk. In fact, why not round up the entire cast for a sequel? Call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Brat Pack Hits Paydirt | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...called me,=they=aJeopardy called me. They want me to fly out later this month, and I don t know if I want to do it and....=Jeopardy=Jeopardy=crashed and burned.<= Maybe it was fate getting back at him for having the gall to look down at the screen displaying his winnings during the opening segment. Or perhaps it was the several on-camera interactions that made Alex Trebek look like the dope he is. In any event, Dave was sent packing, albeit $16,400 richer...

Author: By Franklin Leonard, | Title: Smarter Than You: How My Roommate Went on Jeopardy and Brought Home the Dough | 4/8/1999 | See Source »

Kosovo began glowing on the radar screen of Clinton's foreign policy at the start of 1998. The province has a complicated genealogy: it is populated mostly by Albanians, but for 600 years it has been a lantern of Serbian passion. Serbs venerate the land because it is home to several important monasteries, and in 1389 their ancestors lost a decisive battle with the Ottoman Empire there, setting off 500 years of Turkish rule. The day of the battle is a national holiday--something that last week caused observers to note that understanding the Serb outlook meant understanding a country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into The Fire | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...have shown that patients can learn, by trial and error, to control a type of brain waves called slow cortical potentials. By hooking the patients up to a computer via an electroencephalogram, the researchers taught two ALS sufferers to mentally signal the computer to pick out letters on a screen, spelling out messages. The process is agonizingly slow--the average pace is about two characters a minute--but it should eventually improve. And compared with utter silence, it must seem blistering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Writing Without Moving a Muscle | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...characters in pools of light surrounded mostly by darkness. Their isolation is symbolized further by the play's most startling and curious scene: Dan lures Larry into a bogus rendezvous by posing as a sluttish girl in an Internet chat room, their cyberencounter typed out on a giant computer screen onstage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Sex in the Trauma Ward | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

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