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...mother wit covers a multitude of crimes; a boyish charm can sell anything; vitality overwhelms prim moral compunctions. All three apply to Trainspotting, the Scottish comedy-horror show made for a Scots-thrifty $2.5 million. The wit is in the film's dialogue; it exhilarates even as it horrifies. The charm pours from Ewan McGregor's star-making turn as Renton. And the verve--that's director Danny Boyle's triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ON THE FAST TRACK | 7/15/1996 | See Source »

...sumptuous two-strip Technicolor. The videos offer a reminder that Fairbanks was not just a star of young Hollywood; he was among its most ambitious producers. And he made some marvelous entertainments. The Mollycoddle, The Mark of Zorro, The Three Musketeers and Don Q Son of Zorro display a wit and a zest that shame most of today's bloated adventure films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE KING OF HOLLYWOOD | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

...Freshman Urban Program T-shirt captured the wit and energy that characterized my first week at Harvard. In addition, it gave me membership in a group of service-minded individuals and a uniform with which to recognize them. I laundered the shirt following the instructions my mother had given me (cold water for white shirts and underwear), folded it and placed it in an empty drawer in my Mower room...

Author: By Peter S. Cahn, | Title: Four Years of College In a T-Shirt Drawer | 6/5/1996 | See Source »

Asked to give advice to the Class of 1996, alumni responded with wisdom and wry wit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Typical Member of Class of 1971 Is Affluent White Male, Report Says | 6/5/1996 | See Source »

...rebelling against his teenybopper past as co-leader of Wham! for some time now (his last album, which attempted a more serious tone, was titled Listen Without Prejudice Vol. I), but on this new CD he is not only a rebel without a cause, he also lacks energy and wit. On the song Star People he actually sings "Star People/ counting your money till your soul turns green/ Star people/ counting the cost of your desire to be seen...How much is enough?" This from the man who pouted and pouted and demanded to be let out of his Sony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: OLDER BUT NOT WISER | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

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