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...wants to be a religious allegory, a comedy of bad manners and a portrait of the interior life at a time when TV ads clog the stream of consciousness like shimmering dead fish. Long stretches where the laughs come hard are followed by sudden bloomings of comic rhapsody. This wayward frolic is a bit like Oscar's car. Sometimes you could swear it was stone dead -- until it starts up and runs right over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speaking in Tongues | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

...Frank Sinatra's enduring hits. "So start today," Collins crooned into a microphone. "Love DNA, and do it ouuuuurrr way." The star of this spoof stood 6 ft. 4 in. tall. He wore cowboy boots beneath his white lab coat and slung a stethoscope round his neck like a wayward tie. And as his last note faded, the delighted audience gave him a standing ovation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Riding the Dna Trail | 1/17/1994 | See Source »

...FAMILY. Who needs prosecutors? Wayward sister LaToya said mother Katherine had called Michael a "damn faggot" even as Mom went on TV to defend him. But LaToya had her own problems. British Immigration officers detained her for 90 minutes, suspecting she was Michael in drag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing the Music | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

Liam Neeson stars as a wayward savior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

...been a minor footnote in cold war history were it not for one contingency: it took root in the computers that began showing up in universities and government ^ research laboratories in the late 1960s and early 1970s and became, by a path as circuitous as one taken by those wayward packets, the technological underpinning of the Internet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Nation in Cyberspace | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

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