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...light fixture fall from the sky? Why was he caught in a rain shower only five feet wide? And his wedding photo: Meryl has her fingers crossed! Pod lady or Stepford wife, Meryl has a tang of arsenic in her syrupy voice. And perhaps never in film history has an actress allowed her chiseled dimples to be used so mercilessly against her; the creases in Linney's cheeks seem to be the first fissures in Meryl's crackup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Smile! Your Life's On TV | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...others, using stratagems of love, hope and fear. Most people think they have something to do with shaping their existence. But what if that's a fiction? Who's directing our lives? And how do we negotiate with God or fate or the great TV auteur in the sky? Finally, the film speaks to man's isolation from the world around him. The solipsist believes that he is the only reality; everything else is just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Smile! Your Life's On TV | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...President had better hope the rosy numbers bear out. His once sky-high approval ratings are starting to slip, and the tobacco legislation, which Clinton is counting on to pay for a host of goodies in his 1999 budget, is still getting picked apart in the Senate. With Monica to the left of him and Chinese missiles to the right, the economy -- and its power to "save Social Security first" -- may be all that Clinton has left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is It Still the Economy, Stupid? | 5/26/1998 | See Source »

...kilotons of atomic power, six times as powerful as the Fat Boy dropped on Hiroshima. The ground shakes sharply beneath the village of Khetolai, cracking houses and crashing plates to the floor. Eyewitnesses see a 325-ft.-high dust cloud "blossom like a lotus flower" high in the sky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nukes...They're Back | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

...reply: "Which is coming here and God gives you a mission. To Christians like your good self, only crazy ones." Lucas later meets Obermann and accompanies him on his rounds with his hospitalized patients: "They met some famous figures from Scripture. Noah was present, glancing uneasily at the smoggy sky. Samson, unbound but closely supervised in a room of his own, sneered at Lucas's philistine lack of conditioning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Question of Faith | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

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