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Making his rounds on New York City's night streets, a drug dealer named John LeTour (Willem Dafoe) feels doom gathering around him. The cops are taking an interest in him, one of his best clients is self-destructing, his boss (Susan Sarandon) is threatening to leave the trade, and an ex-lover (Dana Delany) will have nothing to do with him. In LIGHT SLEEPER, bad things happen to not- so-good people. Writer-director Paul Schrader (American Gigolo, Patty Hearst) likes to work the margins of American life, and he does so with a certain style. Also with literary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Aug. 31, 1992 | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

Even the slowdown in Amazon destruction, critics say, owes less to Collor's policies than to a sagging economy. Says Willem Groenefeld, who runs an environmental institute in the Amazonian state of Rondonia: "Nobody has any money to cut the forest down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summit to Save the Earth: Brazil's Two Faces | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

...some of the drawings, for instance -- were just what apprentices like Ferdinand Bol were best at imitating. The more gifted ones would work on parts of Rembrandt's pictures. Some of the assistants were brilliant painters, like Aert de Gelder or Samuel van Hoogstraten. Others, like Nicolaes Maes, Willem Drost or the feeble Isack Jouderville, would hardly be remembered but for the fact that they worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Really Rembrandt? | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

...claims to be CIA (Mickey Rourke in a role small enough so he doesn't wear out his welcome), some crooked arms dealers and a sexy mystery woman (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) all cherchez le loot. Director Roger Donaldson puts a curiously cheerful spin on paranoia, and Willem Dafoe, as a deputy sheriff, provides a knowing parody of Charlton Heston doing jut-jawed heroics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Apr. 20, 1992 | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

Jasper Johns, Richard Serra and Willem de Kooning: Works Loaned by the Artists in Honor of Neil L. and Angelica Z. Rudenstine--Through August 9. Sackler Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

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