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...Victor (Liberto Rabal) has a lofty ambition: to become "the best lover in the world." And Clara (Angela Molina) is eager to coach him. The first lesson, she sagely informs him, is that "making love involves two people." He smiles, then asks, "And the second...?" Victor is a quick learner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lust For Life | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...lovely things about Almodovar epics like Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!: they give you three movies' worth of plot in a fast 100 minutes or so. His sensuous, delirious new film, Live Flesh, has plenty. Victor is involved with two women, Clara and Elena (the sorcerous Francesca Neri), both of whom are married to jealous policemen. The story (based on a Ruth Rendell novel) begins in 1970 with a prostitute giving birth to Victor on a Madrid bus and, within half an hour, doles out drugs, sex, a triangular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lust For Life | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...Victor Navasky, the publisher and editorial director of The Nation; David Granger, the editor-in-chief of Esquire; and Dominique Browning, the editor-in-chief of House and Garden, are also among the list of successful graduates...

Author: By Nancy M. Poon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Publishing Course Celebrates 50 Years | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...women proved far superior in doubles, dominating all other schools. The finals in each flight pitted the Harvard pairs against one another. A doubles match involves one set, in which the first to eight games--winning by two--is the victor...

Author: By Jodie L. Pearl, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Tennis Impresses At Harvard Invite | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

Many adult offenders, of course, also had rough childhoods. But as Victor Streib, dean of Ohio Northern University's law school and an expert on condemned teens, points out, "The 30-year-old criminal has been out of the house for 10 years. He's had time to form a new life. Almost all teenage offenders are still living at home. The damage done to them emotionally and mentally is not so far removed. The abuse was last night." Counters VOCAL's Shehane: "We have to go beyond rationalizing violent, heinous crime by fluffing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dead Teen Walking | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

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