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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That is how he appears in the opening pages of True at First Light, which his second son Patrick, in the introduction, says he whittled down from a 200,000-word manuscript to a book roughly half as long. Even after such radical surgery, the thing seems interminable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where's Papa? | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...Aaron's generation the way Doonesbury speaks to boomers," says syndicate executive Lee Salem. Perhaps for that reason, the strip has drawn complaints on more than just racial grounds. In one strip Riley whacks Cindy with a toy light saber. "See?!!! You're still alive!!" he complains. "This thing is worthless!!" McGruder was stunned by the howls of outrage from readers, who cited the Littleton school shooting and the climate of media violence. "There's a double standard," he protests. "Calvin, in Calvin and Hobbes, abuses a little girl, shoots guns, orders explosives and imagines blowing up his elementary school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Comic N the Hood | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...pace of work on the $64 million project was leisurely. "Stanley didn't work under the gun," says Kidman. "Time was the most important thing to him. He was willing to give up location to save money, but he wasn't willing to give up time." Obsessed with getting it just right, Kubrick wrote and rewrote the script while they were shooting it, sometimes faxing changes to his stars, often as late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Three Of a Kind | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

Kidman could see the pressure building. "We were both dealing with jealousy and sex in a way that it was always lurking around. We shot for 10 1/2 months, but we were there for a year and half. That's quite a strange thing to always have with you, day in and day out. You never quite walk away from it. Stanley as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Three Of a Kind | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...than twice as much and requires users to have their own image-editing software. Another issue: Mac users will have to wait until summer's end for Picture CD. It may be worth it. I found that Picture CD gave me as much technology as I needed. The only thing I lack now is a digital display on the fridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photo Finishes | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

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