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...even caught myself passing up The Godfather and "10" at the video rental place for a tape called "Automatic Golf." The tape consists of a barrel-chested pro demonstrating a grip so convoluted that he swears it makes perfect golf swings inevitable...

Author: By Ken Segel, | Title: Finding Love on the Links | 10/7/1986 | See Source »

...minister of one of the most powerful OPEC nations, Yamani said pricing by oil producers based only on short-term supply and demand trends led to the dramatic fall in petroleum prices from more than $30 per barrel in 1980 to a low of $9 in July...

Author: By James D. Solomon, | Title: Says Mr. OPEC: Stabilize Oil Prices | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...directly to the source. The commercial shows the Senator, accompanied by two farmers, pasting Leahy bumper stickers on the sides of some contented cows. To make the point that Illinois Republican Governor James Thompson has broken a number of promises, Democrat Adlai Stevenson III, not normally known as a barrel of laughs, has been showcasing an ad that features a pair of legs doing a soft- shoe. The voice-over: "When it comes to song and dance, nobody's better than Jim Thompson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Having the Last Laugh | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...riverbed, under the sweeping branches of an acacia tree. Around his belt, the tall (6 ft. 4 in.), American-educated leader of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) wears a knife and a 9-mm automatic pistol; his thick hands are clasped around the stock and barrel of a Hungarian-made AKM assault rifle, private serial number 000. Suddenly, the stillness is broken by the shouts of 1,000 of Garang's guerrillas passing on their way to battle at nearby Kapoeta, a southern Sudanese town 140 miles east of the city of Juba. First they chant, "Garang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sudan War Is Better Than a Bad Peace | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...minister of one of the most powerful OPEC nations, Yamani said pricing by oil producers based only on short-term supply and demand trends led to the dramatic fall in petroleum prices from more than $30 per barrel in 1980 to a low of $9 in July...

Author: By James D. Solomon, | Title: Says Mr. OPEC: Stabilize Oil Prices | 9/18/1986 | See Source »

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