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In 1984, Ashdown Manor served as a residence hall for an eclectic group of British university students: Sarah Tudor, a wistful teacher-in-training prone to occasional lapses in consciousness; Terry Worth, soon to be the bohemian film critic of his generation; Robert, one of Terry's closest friends; Gregory...

Author: By Glenn A. Reisch, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: When Sleep Eludes The Weary | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

It answers one thing: Nichols and his once and current partner, screenwriter Elaine May, can make a funny, knowing, ultimately judicious film from the deliciously satyric satire that Klein, a former Newsweek columnist who now works for the New Yorker, published under the pseudonym Anonymous. If you mix the primary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: True Colors | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

Despite the fact that all the tunes on Pure Imagination are decades old, these renditions don't come across as dusty or dry; every song sounds like opening night. Reed and his estimable sidemen (bassist Reginald Veal and drummer Gregory Hutchinson) turn the familiarity of these old standards to their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opening Night: A pianist takes a jazzy stroll down Broadway | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

The secret desire of every non-streaker is to be among all those naked people, to get a closer look at them, because to do so is to feel a sense of knowledge, power and arousal. But we streakers have transformed these petty appetites into a source of greater power...

Author: By Joel B. Pollak, | Title: Running Proud | 2/4/1998 | See Source »

Among 1997's other heartfelt losses was Jimmy Stewart. The year ended in a wistful memory of the man who brought us the irresistible thought that love is forever, honesty wins, and it's a wonderful life.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE YEAR EMOTIONS RULED | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

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