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...chases shown in movies, an auto often catapults into the air as it goes over a hill, when, for a moment, inertia overcomes gravity. Is it possible the tragic accident in Paris involved the same principle? If the speeding Mercedes became airborne, a slight turn of the steering wheel, which should have been sufficient to negotiate a curve on the roadway, would have been ineffective. Perhaps the accident had more to do with physics than with alcohol. MERRICK LOCKWOOD Dhaka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 29, 1997 | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...turf was definitely a slight disadvantage," Collins said. "We weren't as quick as UConn. They were much faster and executed things quicker. We were more hesitant than on grass...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: F. Hockey Edged By UConn, 3-1 | 9/26/1997 | See Source »

...city of Milwaukee. The narrative begins in 1991 with Milwaukeeans living under a black nationalist's threat of "all-out guerrilla warfare" in the city within five years. Throughout the book, Coleman finds white and black nerves fraying: a prosperous black Republican publisher relates the story of a racist slight at an awards banquet and tells Coleman, "You can achieve all you want to achieve in life, but you can't never get past being a nigger." In the end, Coleman says, it's up to whites, who "can either give up on the idea of racial harmony and just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHITE MEN'S BURDEN: TIRED IDEAS | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

...scrappy intelligence makes the work of all four of these directors stand out even when the songs they are visualizing aren't all that strong. Hip-hop king Combs' It's All About the Benjamins is a slight affair on record, but in Hunter's video it bursts into life. We see Combs, with his white-suited posse, running through a forest; the scene shifts to a stone quarry, drenched in floodlights and filled with revelers; then we see Combs again, in black, rapping onstage as the film slips and slides in the projector--and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEW VIDEO WIZARDS | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

...weird thing about She's So Lovely is that a script by the impresario of improv, directed by his son, should become a tight, slight, goofy romance. As the lovestruck Eddie, Sean Penn denounces his wife's perfume as "a good smell to cover up bad smell." John Travolta, as the second husband of Eddie's beloved Maureen (Robin Wright Penn), snaps at his young stepdaughter, "You haven't lived long enough for me to argue with you. You're just a glorified piece of blue sky." The film has the soul of a sailor after a few drinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: IF JOHN COULD SEE THEM NOW... | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

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