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...opening scene of "The Client" shows Mark (Brad Renfro) teaching his eight-year-old brother Ricky (David Speck) how to smoke behind a trailer-park outside Memphis. Only a few smokes later, Mark has a chance encounter with the suicidal lawyer, Jerome Clifford (Walter Olkewicz), that sweeps his family into a plot of Mafia intrigue, federal investigation, and a legal battle who outcome may determine the family's future. Sound like a compelling beginning...

Author: By Hugh G. Eakin, | Title: Schumacher Continues 'Firm' | 7/22/1994 | See Source »

Would you risk using it if its safety were only proven by "cruelty-free" conjecture? The CVS crusader might discount the happiness of lab bunnies when she gets a speck of Jim's-All-Natural-Cruelty-Free-Third-World-Friendl y-Gentle-Tooth-Cleaner in her eye and writhes in pain as the substance eats away at her cornea via some reaction unforeseen by the bunny-friendly safety testers who formulated...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: DARTBOARD | 3/5/1994 | See Source »

...have isolated a disease- resistant gene in one type of tomato, cloned it and inserted it into a variety of tomato that lacks that gene. The cloned gene signals the plant's defense system to ward off an invasion by bacteria that cause a leaf- destroying disease known as speck. Researchers predict that similar advances with other crops will significantly reduce the need for pesticides by the end of the century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week November 21-27 | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

Flying is such a fragile, precarious act; a plane is the tiniest speck hurling through a great expanse of sky, ever aware that it shouldn't be there. In the back of my mind, I always think that the dream could end. Like the coyote who walks, nonchalantly, off the cliff--and realizes, a few steps later, that he went too far. That's the moment, of course, when he starts to fall...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: She Loves to Fly, and It shows | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

...three networks have said they will back off from their overzealous pursuit of true-crime movies of the week. ABC, which drew fire for its two-parter in May about 1950s mass murderer Charles Starkweather, has turned down a proposed TV movie about 1960s mass murderer Richard Speck. Critics may cheer at the demise of this tawdry TV-movie crime wave, but good films may get hurt in the process. ABC had planned to air the explosively violent (and Oscar-winning) film Goodfellas this season, complete with an introduction by director Martin Scorsese in which he asserts the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Networks Run for Cover | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

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