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...appalled at the thought that the Harvard administration thinks the position of Tutu on the board would wreak havoc," said Robert P. Wolff '54, HRAAA director...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Officials Active In Board Election | 4/6/1989 | See Source »

TRUE BELIEVER. The ambiguities are as unsettling as a crack-house mugger in this humdinger about a sleazy attorney who bends the system to wreak justice. But the real drama is in the demonic intensity and haunted eyes of James Woods, a criminally gifted actor who may be too edgy to become a Hollywood star in this era of the Really Cute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Mar. 13, 1989 | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

TRUE BELIEVER. The ambiguities are as unsettling as a crack-house mugger in this humdinger about a sleazy attorney who bends the system to wreak justice. But the real drama is in the demonic intensity and haunted eyes of James Woods, a criminally gifted actor who may be too edgy to become a Hollywood star in this era of the Really Cute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Mar. 6, 1989 | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

Working in anonymity, the old masters of animation were free to wreak fertile anarchy. Today those cartoons are deemed big art, and Roger Rabbit is big business. The film cost about a zillion simoleons (well, $35 million) and carries a humongous 739 names on the credits (not including Kathleen Turner, who lends her voice to Jessica). Something got lost in the move from storyboard to screen, and in the stretch from seven minutes to 103. From sad experience, Disney and Spielberg should know the perils of paying huge homage to modest genres, yet Roger Rabbit has the odor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Creatures of A Subhuman Species WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

Once the bees cross the Rio Grande, scientists fear, they could wreak havoc among U.S. beekeepers and farmers whose crops depend on bees for pollination. Reason: aggressive Africanized bees, which will interbreed with their gentler domestic cousins, are less efficient pollinators and honey producers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Rising Unease about Killer Bees | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

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