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Part of the great black swirl of gossip now encircling Woody Allen is the confident assertion that in his new movie, Husbands and Wives, Allen plays a college professor who makes love with a young woman student a third his age. And, oh, in Manhattan didn't he and Mariel Hemingway play a similarly mismatched couple? In Hannah and Her Sisters didn't he imagine an affair between a sister and one of her brothers-in-law? No one recalls that Manhattan's middle-aged male ended up miserably alone, and that the scandalous tryst in Hannah was not joyous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Now the Movie . . . | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

From his new vantage point in Berlin, correspondent Daniel Benjamin lives at the nexus of the most dramatic changes in postwar Europe. "The tensions between East and West swirl around you here with a power that one has difficulty imagining anywhere else," he says. James Wilde, who opened our Istanbul bureau in January, is positioned to monitor Turkey's increasingly vital strategic role in Europe and the Persian Gulf, as well as its relationships with the emerging Islamic republics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From The Publisher: May 4, 1992 | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

...mastectomy, hefts her husband's skull like a bowling ball and muses, "The final scar makes all of us safe from the world." She credits this insight to the sinister Linga, a giant Rastafarian woman with a face "beautifully scarred" by razor markings and dyed in a vivid multicolored swirl, who is passing out ganja cigarettes from a Sucrets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swamp Gothic | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

...first glance, Square dancing looksesoteric and confusing, but it soon loses its auraof mystery. (See sidebox on terminology.) If acaller is good, the moves come relatively easily,and dancers "get into the groove" as the eveningprogresses. Anyone who feels graceless should trysquare dancing. The swing and the swirl of it,the twirl and the taunt of it will make eventhose with two left feet feel like...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: Square Dancing at MIT | 2/27/1992 | See Source »

...vocals complement the mysterious sound of Wings of Joy, but she uses her voice only to blend with the menacing guitars and hypnotic rhythm of piano and drums. The mood is eerie, and sounds unique. But the words, the thoughts and the meaning simply fade away into a perverse swirl of annoying sound. This album is mood music for masochists...

Author: By Rita L. Berardino, | Title: Much Pain, No Meaning | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

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