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Waters sees the story of Bruce and Selina, Batman and Catwoman, as a parable of the strangers men and women are to each other. "In the daylight they have a sweet, tentative romance," he says, "but at night their ids are out, beating the heck out of each other. In costume the ids are active. No kissing there, only one good lick." It is the reverse of a fantasy like Pretty Woman. Pretty Woman goes into the store and shops; Catwoman goes in and whips off the heads of the mannequins. Julia Roberts tells Richard Gere she wants the fairy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battier and Better | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

...BOTTOM LINE: The sweet harmonies are back, but the trio's second album is startlingly personal and candid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Won't See Them Cry | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

What a difference two years make. In the trio's new album, Shadows and ! Light, the signature sweet harmonies are back but the subject matter is far more personal -- and gut wrenching. All three women have been estranged from their fathers -- whose well-publicized problems have included drugs and other hazards of rock stardom -- and their anguish over those fractured relationships is dealt with in startlingly candid cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Won't See Them Cry | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

...players like these, it takes more than the Harvard name to beat but sweet deals offered by rival universities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COSTS OF THE LURE | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...SWEET OF MURTAUGH (DANNY GLOVer) to keep pulling unlighted cigarettes out of his partner's mouth. Since the cops' lives are a nonstop succession of explosions, fire fights and car chases, lung cancer is probably the last thing Riggs (Mel Gibson) needs to worry about. The last thing the makers of LETHAL WEAPON 3 worried about was a complex story -- it's simply about stolen guns. The idea was to push the action to a level of excess where it turns parodistically comic, and this is done expertly. They've brought back Joe Pesci as a goofy cop buff, added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: May 25, 1992 | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

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