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...journey into daze, Clark and screenwriter Harmony Korine have worked at numbing the viewer with scenes of anomic decay. It's not the rough huff of the sex play with girls who look to be on the green side of puberty, though these trysts pack their own sick wallop. It's the throwaway brutality (the kids beating up a black man in the park), the notion that the world is there to be spat at or pissed on. In one of the lighter moments, Telly's pal Casper (Justin Pierce) dips a tampon in a red fruit drink, then sucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: FESTIVAL OF LOST CHILDREN | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...with the backstop, as both Detroit and Quebec feature solid savers. Where has Mike Vernon come from? The Red Wing is most notably known for his playoff performance as a Calgary Flame, but has risen from the dead. Watch and see if the old guy still can pack a wallop...

Author: By Bradford E. Miller, | Title: No Sieve | 4/21/1995 | See Source »

...other. The Attorney has apparently been summoned to defend his life, and as his exasperation rises, Guilfoyle displays a wonderfully mobile range of faces: puzzlement, gloating self-assertion, crumpled resignation. If An Interview finally seems like a one-joke drama, it's dexterous enough to dispense a little wallop of spooky uneasiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HUMOR OF BILE AND BITE | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

Several new studies were released indicating that giving HIV-positive patients a combination of powerful drugs may be the best way to combat AIDS. The double wallop of AZT and an experimental new drug, 3tc, effectively put off the appearance of drug-resistant strains of the AIDS virus in infected individuals by as much as one year (patients treated with AZT alone encounter resistance within a few months). Together the drugs also kept the extent of the infection in check while allowing the body to boost its complement of virus-fighting immune cells. More studies are needed to determine whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: JANUARY 29-FEBRUARY 4 | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

With the whole squad tired from a grueling few weeks and several swimmers racing despite suffering from the campus-wide illness, Harvard crushed Dartmouth, 182-118, up in Hanover, N.H. Not only did the Crimson wallop the Big Green, several Harvard swimmers also broke pool records...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: W. Swimming Zaps Big Green, Sickness | 12/13/1994 | See Source »

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