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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 »

...East, according to the West, plays a tamer brand of hockey. In the West, according to the West, hockey is played at blistering speeds with big men who are unafraid of slamming into each other. The West, according to the West, is the best...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Wild, Wild East | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

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