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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Three cons (Clooney, Turturro and Nelson) are on the lam in '30s Mississippi. A blind prophet intones, "You shall see a cow on top of a cotton bale, and many other startlements." Startlements are indeed in store: a one-eyed, toad-squishing salesman (Goodman); three maidens washing their laundry in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas Movie Preview | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

The interesting thing about life is that it does not come prepackaged in a three-act structure the way most movies do. It tends to lurch along like - oh, say, a disputed election in Florida. Take the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. Since we are all still here to savor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas Movie Preview | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

Annie Wilson (Blanchett) is part psychic, part psychiatrist. The locals come to her modest Georgia home less for her readings of the future than for sympathy and counsel. Valerie the battered wife (Hilary Swank) needs to hear she has the courage to leave her brutal husband Donnie (Reeves). Poor afflicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas Movie Preview | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

The needs we get shortchanged most on are our intellectual ones. TF's who don't speak English, a lack of thesis advisors--not to mention advisors in general--one-on-one tutorials disappearing the way of the dodo and our cool and outrageous ideas stymied by paperwork and a...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Bringing Bureaucracy to Students: Council 2001 | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

But if there is a silver lining for Democrats in the cloud that is Al Gore's loss, it is that just-concluded election virtually ensures that their worst nightmare will never find root in the reality of a Bush administration. Sure, this Court handed the election to Bush - but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Kinder, Gentler Supreme Court? | 12/14/2000 | See Source »

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