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HOOK. In this bloated fantasy, a middle-aged Peter Pan (Robin Williams) regains his youth battling a drawling Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman). Steven Spielberg's zillionth reworking of his lost-children theme is a Spruce Goose of a movie: so big, so long, so pretty . . . it just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 30, 1991 | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

...teendom. It matters not that most megahits cast their nets over broader demographics. Teenpix come close to guaranteeing a decent return on a modest financial and creative investment. They will keep coming until Chip and Wendy Q. Public weary of seeing their screen doubles lose their virginity for the zillionth time to an MTV beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Is There Life After Teenpix? | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

Death of a Salesman is getting its zillionth production over at Tufts Arena Theater. The Arthur Miller is as American as apple pie, and undeniably a great play. It's very emotionally and theatrically demanding, though, and it's hard to think of this production doing poor Willy Loman justice. If you've never seen Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock do the play on stage or on television, you might be satisfied with the treatement it gets up in Medford. You can find out for $3.50 at 8:15 tonight and tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STAGE | 7/19/1974 | See Source »

...quality of marijuana slipped lately? Too little kick in the kilo? Too much straw in the stash? The zillionth study commission, this one consisting of 38 eminent citizens of Washington, D.C., and put together by Mayor Walter E. Washington, seems to have a solution. Its proposal: Government regulation of the growth, processing and sale of the controversial weed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Hash in Washington | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

...date: August 1964. The place: Convention Hall, Atlantic City. The milling throngs at the Democratic National Convention have suddenly thrown themselves into paroxysms of cheers, shrieks and rebel yells. Snaking through the mob come dozens of beach-tanned nubile wenches, smiling, waving placards. The band puffs its zillionth chorus of Happy Days Are Here Again. And then to the spotlighted rostrum moves Lyndon Baines Johnson, who has just been nominated by acclamation as the party's candidate to succeed himself. Humbly, he motions for silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Robert Who? | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

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