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...comfortably into either liberal or conservative platforms. As one liberal observer said of the expected returns, "It'll be pretty ideological." This is certainly true of the abortion question, divided as it is between existing battle fronts, and of the two legislative advisory questions on national health insurance and acid rain...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Referenda Divide Voters, Interest Groups | 10/14/1986 | See Source »

...take home $250 a month in his grisly job, waiting around on street corners for his next assignment. Sinagra led the police on a tour of his clan's torture chamber. There he showed them bloodstained ropes, brickbats and a vat in which, he said, bodies were dumped into acid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meanwhile, in Palermo . . . | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...core nasty as the vile drug-killer; he was better in Apocalypse, Now, but it's hard to imagine any actor carrying this role off as well, or with more energy. Brad Dourif, babbling Billy Bibbit of Cuckoo's Nest fame, has a cameo, looking like John Cougar on acid. And Dean Stockwell lipsyncs his way to moviedom history as the super-suave...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: It's a Disturbing Life | 9/26/1986 | See Source »

...Area, the playpen of countercultures. A bit young to be a founding beatnik and, ten years later, a little too bald to be a convincing hippie, he became "the Chief" to a tribe of hallucinating nomads. This stage of Kesey's life was described in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe's rollicking screed about a cross-country tour that Kesey and his overstimulated Merry Pranksters took in a vintage school bus with a psychedelic paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Psycho-Alchemy | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

Displaying stereoscopic slides of one protein structure, the 1976 Nobel laureate explained that enzymes are composed of proteins, or amino acid chains, and speed up chemical reactions in living organisms...

Author: By Benjamin R. Miller, | Title: The Lab is Due Tomorrow | 9/5/1986 | See Source »

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