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...book, which historian James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, calls "in some respects psychologically an even more unstable work than Mein Kampf," recounts in minute detail the slights -- both real and imagined -- that made Zhirinovsky's Kazakhstan childhood an unrelenting horror. In addition to revisiting the many injustices of poverty ("in school one girl had a ball-point pen and I didn't") and listing the names of boys who beat him up, the author bitterly recalls the misery of life in a communal apartment ("I slept on a trunk"), the lines to the toilet ("it smelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Farce to Be Reckoned With | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

...circus have? Especially a tabloid freak show like the Michael Jackson affair? The star returned from medical seclusion in London to cooperate with authorities investigating sexual-abuse charges against him. But on his Neverland Ranch in California, Jackson seemed only the main attraction in a seven-ring circus of horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing the Music | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

Brown, as the murdress Charlotte Corday, sings in a well-characterized, luxuriously deep voice that is coated in a thin, hard shell of insanity. It is through her masterfully tortured expression that we see the horror of the Revolution in all of its slaughter and inhumanity She asks, "Who is judging?" and at once we see that she has removed herself from the scene, and sees beyond the confines of Charenton...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: A Crew of Lunatics | 12/16/1993 | See Source »

Given that everyone within flying distance of Transylvania is now familiar with at least the basic outline of the legendary Dracula tale, any reinterpretation of this horror classic could only succeed by either following along in the campy B-movie tradition and playing it up for humor value, or by employing the freakish in a fresh attempt to scare a jaded audience...

Author: By Jeannette A. Vargas, | Title: A Bloodless Dracula | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

...Remains of the Day" at 12:30, 3:50, 7, 9:45 and 12:15 a.m. "The Nightmare Before Christmas" at 11:45 a.m., 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 and 11:30. "Rocky Horror" at 12:35 a.m. on weekends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not at Harvard | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

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