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Other characters seemed similarly underdeveloped, especially the frustrated scientist played by Wallis Sparks in the modern-day scenes. His prattling about his theories gets confusing, and though some sexual chemistry between him and Hannah is promised, it is never delivered. This is a shame, because Sparks has, to his credit, an engaging clarity, magnetism and blonde, shampoo-ad good looks, and he flounders a bit in this muddy role...

Author: By Joyelle H. Mcsweeney, | Title: Asexual British Scholars Run Wild in Stoppard's Uber-Witty 'Arcadia' | 9/19/1996 | See Source »

...Court, but also suggests that breadth and shallowness are inherently better than depth--an altogether dubious assertion. Learning about an important period offered in the Hist B category of the Core (e.g. America and Vietnam or the Civil War) is imperative to an educated person. It is just a shame we can't take all of them...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: History Cores Needed | 9/19/1996 | See Source »

...total win-lose game," he says. "I don't think anybody is going to have the dominant position in a network-centric world like they had in a desktop-centric world. I just cannot believe that." He pauses. "And I will tell you this: it will be a shame if they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WINNER TAKE ALL: MICROSOFT V. NETSCAPE | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

This is the world's busiest movie industry. In Bombay they call it Bollywood, and it puts Hollywood to shame: more than 700 films a year (roughly three times the number produced by the major Hollywood studios) in the nation's 16 official languages. Such actresses as Sridevi, Twinkle Khanna, Dimple Kapadia, Karisma Kapoor and Chunky Pandey have their careers and private lives monitored by adoring fans with an intensity that Lana Turner would have envied. Bachchan, the God Is My Witness star who looks like a more dashing Jon Lovitz and puts a fierce majesty into his basso declarations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOORAY FOR BOLLYWOOD! | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

...What a shame it was for the comics of the first decade of Saturday Night Live that there was ever such a thing as movies. First Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner and John Belushi proved their worth as sketch artists who could inhabit weird, endearing characters while running wild laps around them. Then they exiled themselves into big-screen junk where they looked forlorn and their talents were cramped. Ninety minutes of Doctor Detroit offered a lot less pure Aykroyd than five minutes of his Nixon on S.N.L...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE NEXT WORST THING | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

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