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Then he scares you witless. Here come a nosy tyrannosaur and a fan-faced, bilious dilophosaur. Nastiest of all are the velociraptors, smart, relentless punks in packs -- Saurz N the Hood. They have a special appetite for kids, just like the great white shark in the movie that made Spielberg's rep. Now it has some worthy successors: primeval creatures with personality and a lot of bite. Jurassic Park is the true Jaws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jaws Ii | 6/14/1993 | See Source »

...deeper when it comes to musicals. When three opened in one week last month, the only homegrown entry was Radio Times, recycling half-century-old songs by the author of Me and My Girl. Another, Which Witch, came from Norway, although its spellbinding score and story were hexed by witless local direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Musical Hit For London | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

...these are difficult psychic and economic times for the legal profession and its practitioners. The anti-lawyer diatribes seem to have found a receptive audience in the general public, while the substantial contribution of lawyers to society (especially corporate lawyers) is conveniently ignored, lost in a flurry of witless one liners and politically inspired attacks of dubious veracity...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: A Defense of the Indefensible | 10/31/1992 | See Source »

...domestic production or on social-welfare programs to ease the plight of the dislocated and unemployed. So what is to be done with 3 million workers in the military industry and nothing but a pinched, depleted domestic economy awaiting them? Just one more fix, is the addict's witless, blubbering solution -- one more useless, death-dealing, high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Costly Addiction of All | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

...soap-opera slickness, Beverly Hills 90210 manages to tap into real concerns of contemporary teens: dating, parents, friends, sex. Melrose Place thus far is tapping into nothing more than worn plot lines from The Young and the Restless. The characters are all gorgeous androids, their life- styles witless L.A. cliches: the first episode ends with the gang frolicking in the swimming pool. There's something ludicrous about seeing these fantasy Californians grapple with real-world problems like paying the rent and sexual harassment at work. Sort of like watching a discussion of the Yugoslav civil war on Studs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revenge of The Androids | 7/20/1992 | See Source »

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