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Making Bean's unwitting victims actual characters--as opposed to leaving them unwitting and unexplored as per the show--also turns out to be a mistake. The movie makes viewers obliged to feel sorry for them, a surefire way to kill the fun. Bean's curator host is incredibly whiny...

Author: By Jonathan B. Dinerstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Big-Screen `Bean' Doomed by Weak Plot | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

Goodman's main strategy in response to his critics is to say they are the unwitting pawns of the Christian right. It is true that conservatives have taken up phonics as a cause, but in California, where there are plenty of liberals in the legislature, pro-phonics legislation passed unanimously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW JOHNNY SHOULD READ | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

That prospect puzzles Senator Frank Lautenberg, the Democrat from New Jersey who is the author of the bill. "I've never heard of a man killing his spouse with an F-16," he says. "That borders on the goofy." But that was an unwitting legacy of Republican lawmakers. In a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A FAREWELL TO ARMS | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

The decisions that you make in the next week have similar consequences for your upcoming semester. The four or five numbers you list on your study card will color everything, both academic and otherwise, that you do for the next 17 weeks. Yet a surprising number of students approach shopping...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: A Message From Your Personal Shopper | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

Traylor then compounded the damage by having Jones tell her story for the first time in public at a Feb. 11, 1994, press conference in Washington where she shared a stage with Clinton haters. That helped to convince many that Jones was a tool, witting or unwitting, of the rabid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE START OF THE DEAL | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

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