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...Cabinet is chosen and the political odd couple set about governing the country. "Because Gus cannot read documents, the question is who will control the flow of information to him," says Sarwono Kusumaatmadja, a former Cabinet minister. "There will be fierce competition over who is going to whisper in his ear." Or his mobile phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia's Odd Couple | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...highlights of the album is "Prefeelings," a jarring duet with rapper Beans from the Anti-Pop Consortium. The listener is torn between the simultaneous lyrics from Lindsay and Beans, whose harsh, quick delivery contrasts sharply with the smooth near-whisper of Lindsay...

Author: By Andrew P. Nikonchuk, | Title: Album Review: Prize by Arto Lindsay | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...election trail and 12-day Asia trip reduce voice to whisper. Vocal cords examined with fiber-optic probe; given drug to keep stomach acid out of throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clinton Voice Index | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...wish it hadn't happened. I'm mad cause now I can't go to Girl Scouts with her," Tiffany says. "She would whisper things to me when I really needed help with things." She pauses. "I'm probably going to buy some flowers," she says. "I wish they would give me something of hers--one of her toys or something." She continues: "I wish she wasn't even there. I wish she was spending the night with us. It's so stupid." She wonders, "Maybe I could take her cat. Is the cat dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Portrait of the Killer | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...betrayal of Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel, The Haunting of Hill House. Four folks (Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson, Lili Taylor, Liam Neeson) are trapped, for no compelling reason, in an old mansion the size of Versailles--not the palace, the city. Doors rattle and children's voices whisper from the dead in this poltergeistian theme-park ride and spooky radio show that never add up to a movie. There's one good shock, with a skeleton in a fireplace; but finally the film collapses in its own special-effects idiocy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Haunting | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

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