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...lesser details like setting and characterization. Chapters are short and end in suspense, luring readers with short attention spans to forge onward. The level of violence ranges from the implied to the horrific, and the bloodier bits are sometimes mitigated by context: it was all a dream, the demonic villain got what was coming to him, etc. Explicit sex is largely forbidden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carnage: An Open Book | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

Saddam Hussein, at least as he is caricatured in Western demonology, is the perfect comic-book villain for Jeffrey Archer's latest summer-weight thriller. ) What's more, the Iraqi strongman has cooked up a fiendish scheme to humiliate the Great Satan: steal the Declaration of Independence from its place in the U.S. National Archives, and burn it on July 4, 1993, in Baghdad's Victory Square. Horrors! Curses! Zounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Damp Fireworks | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...VILLAIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adoption: In Whose Best Interest? | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

...story that holds so much pain for so many people needs a villain. Each set of parents has found grounds to blame the other, and as the stakes rose and the story went public, the charges got uglier. DeBoer supporters claim it was Cara's lie about the father in the first place that started the trouble. But the Schmidts' advocates retort that at the time she gave up her baby, Cara was in a fragile state, without the help of psychological counseling or legal advice. And the courts could not punish Dan for Cara's deception; he never consented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adoption: In Whose Best Interest? | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

...movie doesn't need complex and creative filming techniques and the villain doesn't even have to die in an bizarre way. The action and suspense take over the show so none of that matters. "In the Line of Fire" keeps the audience yanking the pieces of the intrigue as if they were onion skins and makes them cry for more...

Author: By Christopher J. Hernandez, | Title: Eastwood Thriller Features Fast Action, Villain, Cheesy Romance | 7/16/1993 | See Source »

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