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...here's a movie. Three stories that begin as cliches but soon go wild and wily. A gallery of tough guys who minor in philosophy. Career-defining turns by John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman. Peppery dialogue that brings macho swank into the '90s. Quentin Tarantino's adrenaline rush of a melodrama is a brash dare to timid Hollywood filmmakers. Let's see, he says, if you can be this smart about going this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Cinema of 1994 | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

...crusade of refinement against the outre. She is Germany's Jil Sander, 50, whose extremely simple, graceful clothes have won legions of devotees among women accustomed to spending upwards of $2,500 for a jacket and a pair of trousers -- including such notable shoppers as Barbra Streisand, Winona Ryder, Uma Thurman and life- stylist Martha Stewart. Sander has turned her 20-year-old Hamburg atelier into a $200 million fashion-and-cosmetics empire, and she has joined Armani and Chanel as one of the three best-selling elite designers in the U.S. There are already 22 Sander boutiques worldwide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: Lessons in Lessness | 11/7/1994 | See Source »

Hirasaki, who described his appearance as "a la Uma Thurman style," started dancing on a table to music of RuPaul. Occasionally, he would jump to another table and continue the dance...

Author: By Amita M. Shukla, | Title: Shopping For House Drag Night | 10/29/1994 | See Source »

...they're marching ahead of you, showing their faces to your parents, friends and local television affiliates. Don't you want all the world to think that your class embodies the virtues of a latter-day Montgomery Clift and Grace Kelly? (That's a modern-day Denzel Washington or Uma Thurman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAME AS IT EVER WAS | 10/15/1994 | See Source »

Onscreen, John Travolta had just raised an Adrenalin-filled hypodermic needle above the comatose body of Uma Thurman and, with desperate force, plunged it straight into her heart. In the audience at New York City's Lincoln Center, where Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction was being shown, a young man watched this scene and passed out. "Is there a doctor in the house?" someone actually asked. The film was stopped for nine anxious minutes before the announcement came: "The victim is just fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Blast to the Heart | 10/10/1994 | See Source »

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