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...more than likely right. Movies achieve this kind of historic stature not because they offer a particularly acute portrayal of the way we live now or because they summarize with nuanced accuracy the opposing positions in an often flatulent quasi-political debate. They work because somehow they worm their way into our collective dreamscape, retrieve the anxious images they find there and then splash them across the big screen in dramatically heightened form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gender Bender Over Thelma & Louise | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

...Friend, What's Happening? Warnings to American troops to be culturally sensitive may have gone a little too far. Newly arrived soldiers have been advised to avoid the phrase "Hey, dude" because "dude" sounds like the Arabic word for worm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Footnotes From the Front | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

What does a moral relativist do? If we are to take Peninsula as gospel, he--or more likely she--is a sneaky little character who has managed to worm into the Harvard bureaucracy with a detailed agenda. What precisely this agenda entails is not exactly clear, but it seems to somehow involve and effort to discredit "moral" values--i.e., those held by Peninsula, AALARM and their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tilting at Windmills | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

...story could serve as a parable of feminist revenge. Mary steals accountant Bob Patchett (Ed Begley Jr.) away from his fat, drab, warty wife Ruth (Roseanne Barr). Then Ruth, with a systematic resourcefulness she has never displayed as a homemaker, destroys everything Bob loves: house, family, career, freedom. The worm turns into a winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Warty Worm | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...fishing for trout is an undemocratic sport. It takes intelligence and skill to learn, a healthy income to afford and plenty of free time to practice. Though bait fishermen scoff that snobs use flies as an excuse to keep worm and minnow goo off their hands, fly-fishermen approach the sport with an almost mystical reverence. Perhaps that's because learning to catch trout is a complex process bordering on religion. Yet it is one of the fastest-growing sports in the U.S., now embraced by nearly 500,000 fisherpeople...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Zen and The Art of Fly-Fishing | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

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