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...referred to The Truman Show as "the summer's smartest movie." Um, I hate to point this out to you, folks, but in a season filled with a giant radioactive lizard and big ole asteroids, it doesn't take much to be smart! ZACK HANDLEN Lyman, Maine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 22, 1998 | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

This is a declaration of love: The Opposite of Sex is the smartest, edgiest, most human and handsomely acted romantic comedy in elephant years. It's got enough plot, in 100 spiky minutes, for an entire season of Melrose Place (if that show were totally weird and funny). It has two births, two deaths, five sexual affairs and no special effects. Writer-director Don Roos' film also has a gnarled wisdom about modern romance, straight and gay, that makes it a road-movie Chasing Amy, a Heathers for the whole postnuclear family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Modern Romance | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

...status quo: That seems to be the conclusion, whether your issue is grapes or capitalism or a crappy summer job. We've learned and forgotten a lot of stuff in four years. But finally, we've gleaned from our experiences with this Harvard achievement rat race one thing: the smartest people in the whole affair are the ones who remember to keep thinking...

Author: By Abigail R. Branch, | Title: Living Deliberately | 5/22/1998 | See Source »

...Edgar Bronfman Jr. is certainly the youngest and handsomest of the moguls who own entertainment companies. And ever since he acquired MCA in 1995, Hollywood has been waiting to see whether he would also prove to be one of the smartest. But in the wake of a spate of firings at the company, now called Universal Studios, there is a giant whirring sound as Tinseltown starts to turn on young Bronfman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bronfman Stirs Universal | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...bank's digits are widely accepted, there is no need to stick with government-issued numbers. Government money will still exist, but so will dozens of other currencies, each tailored to a specific need and endlessly convertible and exchangeable. The best money, in short, will be the smartest money. Says Howard Greenspan, president of Toronto-based Heraclitus Corp., a management consulting firm: "In the electronic city, the final step in the evolution of money is being taken. Money is being demonetized. Money is being eliminated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Bank Theory | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

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