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At first Jack seems a bit trite because of his fabled old Western dialect of cute truisms and botched verbs, his "aw-shucks" likeability and his emphasis on his honest-to-God credibility. I was a bit critical about what might have been merely a tall-tale spun by a...

Author: By Rheanna Bates, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: For Dustin Hoffman's Golden Years | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

Of the leads among the Venetians, New England Conservatory first-year Stephen Beaudoin fares well as the cheerily optimistic and slightly dopey gondolier Marco, his fairly hearty (but once again too quiet) singing matched with an eye for physical comedy. Krishnan Unnikrishnan '02 is equally endearing and doltish as Giuseppe...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pump Up the G. and S. Volume | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

She pays attention to many things. Correctly interpret the woolly worms--inch-long fuzzy caterpillars, also called woolly bears--and you can determine the winter's snowfall; the more solid-black worms, the more snow; the more solid-brown worms, the less snow. But if more worms are black on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watch for Huddling Spiders | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

Watching Travolta warmly embrace fans or chat up elderly extras on the set, it's clear he works "that great p.r. thing" as well as Clinton does. "John has a need for people, and you can feel it," says director Mike Nichols. But that's not all the actor and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The People's Choice | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

And as an African-American woman, Morrison knew that some people would believe, even if they wouldn't say it out loud, that the notoriously inconsistent Swedish committee, often swayed by geopolitical rather than literary criteria, had given her the prize because of what she was rather than what she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Paradise Found | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

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