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Dark Victory

Ella Taylor
If Steven Spielberg's emotional intelligence matched his visual genius, his harrowing, passionately felt and honorably flawed new film might qualify for one of the greatest American movies ever made about World War II. Saving Private Ryan begins with a 24-minute opening sequence depicting, in horrifically intimate shorthand, the Allied invasion......

Adrian Lyne:

Manohla Dargis
Nearly three years after it was completed, and some 10 months after it premiered in European movie theaters, Adrian Lyne's Lolita arrives on American screens with far less bang than whimper. A glum, dull, witless affair buoyed only by the minor scandal of its failure, until recently, to secure U.S......

Year 2000

Peter Garrison
The subcommittee also graded a number of agencies and departments separately. Social Security, which began fixing its systems in 1987, received an A+. Other agencies did not fare so well. The Department of Defense, with thousands of computer-controlled weapons systems, many of them quite old, got a D. The Department......

Year 2000

Peter Garrison
In a little less than a year and a half, something bad is going to happen. The world's computers, on which just about everything we eat, earn, spend and save depends, are going to suffer a seizure - or rather a snowballing series of tiny spasms, which in the end......

Letters

L.A. Weekly
YAY, BUMMER!DEAR EDITOR:Great goddamn article about LSD ["The Trip," July 3-9]. You consistently outperform any other L.A. publication. Kudos.-Peter BassettLos Angeles DEAR EDITOR:You go, L.A. Weekly! After your consistent but futile attempts to discredit Scientology, a drug-free and highly workable technology that has improved millions of lives, you are now......
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The Six-Strings Mystique

Chuck Eddy
A few years ago, bored by grunge and late speed metal and still lamenting the loss of pretty glam in prettier haircuts, I thought loud guitar bands had entirely run out of both options and steam - the only stuff I was liking was sung in Spanish, which I don't......
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Marx and Duchamp for Beginners

Michael Simmons
You've probably heard of the aberration referred to as "the '60s" (which actually ended sometime in the mid-'70s), when the impossible seemed imminent. Threats to dump hallucinogens in big-city reservoirs by wild-haired anarchists may have turned out to be tongue-in-cheeky scare tactics, but the secondhand smoke of a billion burning......

Lost Generation

Jo-Ann Mort
JERUSALEM - When Jericho was flooded this past October, Saeb Erakat, the head of the Palestinian negotiating team and a member of the Palestinian legislature from Jericho, received no calls of concern from Israeli colleagues. His daughter, however, received 23 calls from her Israeli friends whom she had met at......

Michael Taylor's killer convicted

David Cogan
The story of community activist Michael Taylor's life and death - of his rise from L.A.'s Skid Row to the broadcast booth at KPFK 90.7 FM, of his ill-fated venture into micro-radio and his execution-style murder - reached some kind of closure this week. A Los Angeles Superior Court jury......