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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...handsome design -- the picture looks as clean as a Hockney landscape -- and its juicy performances. Huston and Bening, sure shots for Oscar nominations, make for two splendid carnivores; they both have scintillating street wit and legs that go on for days. Cusack, as the would-be lion tamer, naturally gets devoured. And a swell sight it is too, a mother consuming her young, for the same reason a mama scorpion does: she's hungry. That's Jim Thompson's world, and now Hollywood is welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

...nail gun, power drill, chain saw and, in a scene that should cause the loudest uproar, a hungry rodent. Those who are interested in the gobbets can exercise their rights as free American consumers early next year -- that is if they are still interested after reading one of the tamer examples of Ellis' zombie prose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Revolting Development | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

Despite their initial hesitations about seeing the film, many women said afterwards that Clay's antics were tamer than they had expected...

Author: By Jonathan M. Berlin, | Title: Andrew Dice Clay? | 7/13/1990 | See Source »

Gorbachev is a sort of Zen genius of survival, a nimble performer who can dance a side step, a showman and manipulator of reality, a suave wolf tamer. He has a way of turning desperate necessities into opportunities and even virtues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gorbachev: The Unlikely Patron of Change | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

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