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Reactions to the event varied from seeing it asan expression of vertigo and of Harvard-Yaletension to treating it as social event...

Author: By Olivia A. Radin, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Matthews Resident Plays Practical Joke | 10/2/1992 | See Source »

...Blue Nun, a snickering satire of middle-class oenophiles, and Pass the Mic, a put-down of rival rappers who "haven't got a thing to say," do the Beasties show a flash of their old brattiness. At such moments they simultaneously capture and embody the giddy social vertigo of livin' large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punky Funk | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

...does a beautiful woman carry a gun in FINAL ANALYSIS? Because "there are a lot of lunatics out there!" At least three of them are at large in this steamy Hitchcock knockoff -- mostly from Vertigo. A psychiatrist (Richard Gere, with his famous hair and casual sexual authority) blunders into toxic relationships with two wily sisters (Kim Basinger and Uma Thurman). Soon, despite her married bondage to creepy contractor Eric Roberts, Basinger takes Gere to bed. Their mandatory sex scene is shot in tiger stripes of light and shadow, as if it were an R-rated outtake from the Nature series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Mar. 9, 1992 | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

...across the country. Stories of foreclosures and lost jobs have woven themselves into a virtual folklore. Many who have been accustomed to the upholstered assumptions of the American Dream have discovered what looks like an abyss, something the middle class has not seen before. Looking down gives them terrible vertigo. It scares them, and makes them want to attack the politicians they think have led them to this place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Voters Are Mad as Hell | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

...Vertigo 1 Necco Pl. Boston Call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLUBS | 12/12/1991 | See Source »

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