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- <title>
- Dec. 26, 1994: The Best & Worst of 1994
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Dec. 26, 1994 Man of the Year:Pope John Paul II
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE BEST & WORST OF 1994, Page 131
- Tallying a year of Pulp Fiction and pulp fact
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- <body>
- <p> Of all the entries on our best and worst lists, you would think
- one would perfectly sum up the year 1994. Love! Valour! Compassion!,
- the title of Terrence McNally's new play, No. 2 on our
- Theater list, doesn't really do it; but would the top choice,
- Three Tall Women by Edward Albee, serve any better? Supermodel
- Nadja Auermann, the stratospheric antiwaif, does appear on the
- People list--but that's only one tall woman. As for the other
- lists--yes, Lutoslawski's symphonies are beautiful, and Andre
- Agassi showed unwonted grit at the U.S. Open, and The Lion King
- features an amazing antelope stampede, but these are hardly
- emblematic.
- </p>
- <p> Obviously, instead of searching the Bests for this year's perfect
- metaphor, we should be studying the Worsts, some of which we
- have also identified. The Environment rubric "A Little Is Too
- Much" refers to the discovery that even trace amounts of dioxin
- can be harmful. Doesn't it also apply to the year as a whole?
- A little O.J. is too much; even a trace amount of Newt Gingrich
- goes a long way; a mere grain of Forrest Gump is dangerous.
- In the cases of love, valour and compassion, of course, too
- much would still have been too little.
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
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