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...laughing" remembering the man Clinton called his Rock of Gibraltar. "When I was told what happened," he recalled, "I just kept thinking in my mind of when we were so young, sitting on the ground in the backyard, throwing knives into the ground and seeing if we were adroit enough to make them stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Hope Ends | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...wizards who market soft drinks know that America is a fad-happy nation, and Pepsi has long been adroit at catching or creating the latest wave. But there is sometimes a dark side to the national thirst to be part of a trend. Jangling deep in the psyche of some souls, it appears, is an irresistible urge to be certified on the 5 o'clock news as a victim, a stoic survivor of sinister forces. Last week Pepsi found itself at the center of one of the weirdest such ripples of the media age, first as alleged victimizer, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Weird Case, Baby? Uh Huh! | 6/28/1993 | See Source »

...then coloration, then the fine tuning with wrinkles, scales, dirt. "You see skin moving over bones and over muscles," says ILM's Dennis Muren, who directed the project. "When the brachiosaurus walks, the weight of its chest makes it swing back and forth." Dippe believes the process is so adroit that, "if we had real dinosaurs, we'd probably still do it this way. Our animals don't get tired or hungry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Magic of Jurassic Park | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

...classic small-market team," said Ted Simmons, the club's adroit general manager. "Take these four names -- Bobby Bonilla, $29 million; John Smiley, $18 million; Doug Drabek, $19 million; and Barry Bonds, $43 million. It would have added up to almost $110 million to keep them. We couldn't do it." So these days, Bonilla is a Met; Smiley hurls for the Cincinnati Reds; Drabek has jumped to his hometown team, the Houston Astros; and Bonds is a Giant, in both team and contract size. But don't hang the skull and crossbones at half-staff for the Pirates quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Great Season | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

...reason for this is that Clinton and his team are emerging as adroit behind-the-scenes operators. For two weeks House Democrats such as Tim Penny of Minnesota, Charles Stenholm of Texas and Dave McCurdy of Oklahoma had been pressing party leaders to consider an additional $82 billion in cuts, including $20 billion in Clinton's new "investment" programs. The moderates want to gut the space station, the supercollider and a number of weapons projects, such as the V-22 Osprey and remnants of the Strategic Defense Initiative and apply the proceeds to deficit reduction. The centrist faction was bolstered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Sell | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

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