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...bother carping about script lapses involving the crew (or an even sillier subplot of an upper-class twit on a yacht)? Humans are irrelevant to an effects extravaganza. The money shots come out of a computer or a studio tank. And though a storm is not a shark, the technical artistry plugs into a viewer's neurons to create a churning queasiness. You won't be moved. You will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Familiar Crew Adrift in Turbulent Waters | 7/3/2000 | See Source »

...London-born, Oxford-educated Grant believes his rise, and hence his fall, was media generated. "This extraordinary Hugh Grant creation comes into existence and becomes more and more bizarrely different to me," he says. "It's this bungling, floppy-haired, upper-class twit--and I really don't think that bears a resemblance to me, especially not with my new hair grease." He runs his fingers through his hair for about the 80th time. "In the end all you can do is have a laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hugh Grant's Sorry Now | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...sooo pretentious. He was so, so pretentious. That twit...

Author: By Richard D. Ma, | Title: Introducing: Jennr8r | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

Tuesday, April 14 From Meg To: Tom I had a love affair with the word "twit" once. This lasted for years, long before I knew anyone that I know now. But the memory of the love lingers and in times of quiet if I really concentrate I can conjure up those feelings again. I've noticed you have a deep affection for the word "hip." You say it pretty often. I get the feeling that you secretly mean "hep"--something about the way you use the word belies a kind of nostalgia for hepness. Probably because you use the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: We've Got Their Mail | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...care less about Clinton's liaisons. It's not a matter of national importance, and it's none of our business. Investigators such as Ken Starr make McCarthyism look like child's play. It's frightening to see how our government is in peril because of a twentysomething twit. We are heading down a dangerous road with these investigations, and I hope our representatives realize that everyone can be subjected to this invasive process. ANNE M. CORE Sonoma, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 31, 1998 | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

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