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...Alderaan. The invocation to "trust your feelings" seems a woozy echo of the '67 Summer of Love, not the '77 summer of Wars, but Alec Guinness carries himself with the majesty of a Jedi knight and an acting peer. The climactic dogfight, copied in a quillion arcade games, has thrust and logic; it's the clearest, most potent narrative section of the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: OUR CRITIC RIDES A TIME MACHINE | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...suspect, while JonBenet's parents, John and Patricia, are now communicating with investigators only through their lawyers and a media consultant. And as a side effect of the intense scrutiny the case is receiving, JonBenet's world--the glittering, multimillion-dollar world of children's beauty pageants--has been thrust onto a stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAYING AT PAGEANTS | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

...feel it only fair, though, to point out to my wife that many people may underestimate the difficulty of writing verse that must include the names of whichever politician a fickle electorate happens to thrust forward. It takes a toll on a poet to go to his desk every day in the full knowledge that he'll never find a rhyme for Moynihan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POETIC INJUSTICE | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

Varnedoe's show does an immense service to Johns by trying to see him whole, as a painter with a continuous 40-year oeuvre, rather than as a hinge figure between movements--Abstract Expressionism and Pop, Minimalism and process art, or whatever. Johns has been thrust rather too easily into this role by his great influence on other artists. The deadpan stripes of his Flag, 1954-55, become the pinstripes of Frank Stella's black paintings in 1959, and his deliberateness, making the picture up in advance instead of discovering it in the act of painting, lies behind much process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEHIND THE SACRED AURA | 11/11/1996 | See Source »

Walter, 49, the former chairman and ceo of R.R. Donnelley & Sons in Chicago, joins AT&T this week. Relatively unknown, he has been thrust into the spotlight and asked to supercharge a company at the opposite end of the communications spectrum. Walter is experienced at the art of change management, though, having put R.R. Donnelley through a complete restructuring as it coped with technological shifts in its industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AILING AT&T HIRES A PRINTER | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

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