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Mickey Mouse pranced across the entire front page of the French Socialist daily Le Matin last Thursday, while another paper added his familiar ears to its logo for the day. All of France, it seemed, was celebrating what one government official called "the largest investment in recent history in France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mickey Mouse Goes to Paris | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

The rampage left Iowa perplexed, as well as anguished. "Nobody thought Dale would do things like that," said a farmer who knew Burr. "He was quiet, didn't smoke or drink, didn't socialize much. His life was his wife and that farm of his." But Burr felt overwhelmed by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Couldn't Manage Any More | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

But as farm foreclosures have increased, many farmers have come to view bankers as the enemy. In 1983 a Minnesota farmer and his son lured a bank president and a loan officer to their foreclosed ten-acre tract, ambushed and killed them. Last year a Nebraska farmer was killed in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Couldn't Manage Any More | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

The curious thing is that though such painters are present by the acre, the one incontestably major figure of that generation, Anselm Kiefer, has only three paintings in the show, none among his best. Why this should be so is a mystery; but it is hard not to suspect that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tracing the Underground Stream | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

Ray Schulenberg has spent years recreating the communities of natural prairie vegetation that once covered the Midwest. He has gathered seed by hand, replanting, and weeding acre by acre to save these species and their ecosystem from extinction. The prairie grasses--which can rejuvenate over-cultivated land, fight erosion, and...

Author: By John Ross, | Title: Saving the World From Itself | 12/3/1985 | See Source »

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