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...Alanis Morissette), that the last descendant of Jesus (Linda Fiorentino) works in an abortion clinic, that there was a 13th Apostle who was black (Chris Rock)--Dogma is a tortured testament from a true believer. In an age when not only belief in God but belief itself brings a smirk to hip, jaded faces, this is a film out of time, the most devout movie in a modern setting since Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest (1951), and a worthy successor to The Last Temptation of Christ, Martin Scorsese's 1988 parable of doubt purified into faith. Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Can God Take A Joke? | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...featured an exchange of corporeal gifts and bodily fluids. I realized the walls of the donor room are painfully thin (or maybe they only seem that way, because you know they know what's up). As I exited the room, I scanned for a knowing smile, a derisive smirk or oncoming banter...

Author: By Eliot I. Hodges, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Giving the Gift of Life | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...Harry's appeal goes beyond the children's audience. When asked whether she or her parents enjoy the books more, Alice responds with a devilish smirk and a giggle: "My parents like it more!...My mom always says, 'Don't you want to read Harry Potter?'" Indeed, in the Henry household, Rowling's books have created so much excitment that Alice's mother reports one family argument caused when Dad read ahead and finished the book before everyone else...

Author: By Sara M. Jablon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harry Potter Makes Good | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

...times the team traveled to play-off games and he fought to get Evans served in segregated restaurants and hotels. Instead he tells about getting picked off first base during a play-off in Ottumwa, Iowa. His team was eliminated, "and ever since then," he says with a smirk, "I've dreamed of going back to Iowa and winning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Bradley's Twilight Cruise | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...Internet back then," says Zaitz. "In fact, it was mildly embarrassing. I'd be at cattle sales, conferences and dairy shows, and people would come up to me and say, 'Hey, Ben, how's that Internet thing going?' and they'd slap me on the back with a smirk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The E-Trade Stampede | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

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