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...sure, let's believe that too. Where Grisham really stumbles is in grafting an adventure tale's hero and heroine--both young and good looking, she slightly smarter than he--onto the stiff frame of a civil trial. The awkward premise is that this pair of secretive anti-tobacco activists manages to plant him on the jury. He then easily takes control, getting an exceedingly dim judge to banish balky jurors and drugging another uncooperative panelist himself. She, meanwhile, remains offstage (not an asset in the sort of novel in which at least a modest degree of bodice ripping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE RUNAWAY PLOT LINE | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

...understand how she can misconstrue Ida's strong-willed determination as "prim," "sanctimonious" or "stiff." The other actors created a funny, exciting, thoughtful production. Levenstein turned it into something extraordinary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Princess Ida' Review Lacking | 5/17/1996 | See Source »

...scrub May negotiations on the unresolved status of Palestinian refugees, Israeli settlements in the occupied territories and jurisdiction of Jerusalem if the PNC did not remove the clauses. PNC inaction might also have dealt a blow to the reelection bid of Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who faces a stiff challenge from Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu in national elections May 29. With the PNC vote, the ball is now in Peres' court. The PLO is hoping Israel will hasten the redeployment of troops in Hebron and ease the closure restrictions on Gaza and the West Bank, but that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLO Ends Its Call to Arms | 4/25/1996 | See Source »

...scrub May negotiations on the unresolved status of Palestinian refugees, Israeli settlements in the occupied territories and jurisdiction of Jerusalem if the PNC did not remove the clauses. PNC inaction might also have dealt a blow to the reelection bid of Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who faces a stiff challenge from Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu in national elections May 29. With the PNC vote, the ball is now in Peres' court. The PLO is hoping Israel will hasten the redeployment of troops in Hebron and ease the closure restrictions on Gaza and the West Bank, but that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLO Ends Its Call to Arms | 4/24/1996 | See Source »

...going for him. Smart enough to have developed an immensely profitable software program, this New York City police officer lives not in some aluminum-sided row house in Queens but rather in a vast SoHo loft replete with abstract paintings and expensive sheets. Sure, he has problems--like a stiff, play-by-the-rules police chief--but they're never anything that a blond and a good Merlot can't help him solve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: MANNIX LIVES! | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

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