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This is not, putting it mildly, a fun premise. Indeed, the screenwriters (James DeMonaco and Gary Nadeau) and the director (Francis Ford Coppola, no less) consider it to be a philosophical premise, an occasion to wax pseudo-wise about life's brevity and the need to live it to the fullest while we're still here. There are also several demonstrations of why it is not nice to make fun of people who are different from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: RECESS YET? | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

...tour de force," sent a shiver of hope through thousands of paralyzed people. Although doctors quickly pointed out that it may be years before last week's findings could be turned into an effective therapy, they too were clearly buoyed. In a companion commentary, New York University neuroscientist Dr. Wise Young wrote, "The possibility of effective regenerative therapies for human spinal cord injury is no longer a speculation but a realistic goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A STEP BEYOND PARALYSIS | 8/5/1996 | See Source »

...roaches therefore spend their time making often incomprehensible wise-cracks from under any object in Joe's nightmarishly filthy apartment that could be animated: false teeth, toast, lampshades etc. Payson's philosophy seems to have been to keep things moving, literally, at any cost...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: MTV Flick Grows Old Quick | 7/30/1996 | See Source »

Fiona Apple is only 18 years old. And she looks even younger than that, with her small, slight frame and large, innocent eyes. But when she sings, she sounds twice as old, twice as wise as her years. In her promising debut album, Tidal, Apple's unassuming but versatile alto explores issues of abandonment and desire. In the Latin-tinged song The First Taste, her voice suggests the distant melancholy of soul singer Sade; in Sleep to Dream she assumes a smoldering anger that comes off like a muted Alanis Morissette; and in the wordy, moody Sullen Girl she evokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: FIONA APPLE: WISE BEYOND HER YEARS | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

...been at Harvard before," says Wise, who worked here in the library system before her marriage, "so I knew that people knew me before I even met Fred, that I had an independent identity, and that was a very important piece...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: Two-Career Families Pose Special Problem In Faculty Recruiting | 7/26/1996 | See Source »

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