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...town with few rules, producers can let their imaginations -- and development budgets -- run wild. A few of the stranger projects that are kicking around Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Pipeline | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

...baroque plots that American officials may have hatched in the Middle East over the past decade. Last week, as yet more charges came to light, there was no shortage of fingerprints, plot twists or stool pigeons. But there was a desperate shortage of certainty, perhaps because when truth is stranger than fiction, the two are harder to separate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: Con Man or Key to a Mystery? | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

...wrong choice at every turn and act more like Clint Eastwood than Katharine Hepburn. The day after her near rape, Thelma is begging Louise to pick up a hitchhiker. It requires a breathtaking midair somersault of faith to believe Thelma would be eager to take up with another stranger so soon and would let him into her motel room and go limp with desire after he admits he robs convenience stores for a living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This What Feminism Is All About? | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

Asked if he would consider attending Harvard, Nick answers, "Sure, why not? It would be stranger for me to say, 'No, I'd never consider going to Harvard Business School.' I certainly wouldn't rule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All My Children: Rudy's Kids Tell All | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...together, she charges in a civil suit, until he came to her dorm room one night, uninvited, and raped her. Weeks later, she says, he ripped her dress at a play rehearsal and grabbed her exposed breast. Still she told no one. "If I had been raped by a stranger, I would have told someone. But to be raped by a friend -- I began to wonder, Whom do you trust?" She struggled to hold her life and education together, but finally could manage no longer and left school. Only later did Julie learn that her assailant was the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clamor on Campus | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

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