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...film handles its material fairly honorably. It does not prettify the rigors of cancer treatment, and it does not pump out a cloud of cheap sentiment when things start to go bad for the patient. But if anything redeems Dying Young, it is the playing. Roberts has a bead on the twentysomething spirit -- its curious blend of certainty and confusion -- and Scott catches the inwardness and detachment of a figure astonished to find himself exploring the near side of the far side prematurely. The cool tact of his performance is all the more effective for its understatement and -- just what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Designated Heroine | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

...They're more deliberate efforts to try to get a bead on certain issues and think about how to proceed on a whole set of things," he says...

Author: By Philip P. Pan and Maggie S. Tucker, S | Title: Throwing Himself Into The Job | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

Around that time, in the early 1950s, when dry wall was rapidly replacing plaster in new houses, one of Sokolof's employees arrived at work with two cartons of corner bead, the metallic strips used to join dry wall at a corner. "I looked at the price," Sokolof recalls, "and thought, 'My God! That's really high.' " After checking the cost of steel and the fabricating technique, he decided he could undercut the only two national companies producing the bead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Crusader From the Heartland: PHILIP SOKOLOF | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

...bought a $15,000 machine, rented a building for $75 a month and went into business. "I made the product, went out on the road and sold it, and came back and did the invoices." Offering the corner bead at a few dollars less per 1,000 ft. than his big competitors, Sokolof began turning a profit by his second month of operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Crusader From the Heartland: PHILIP SOKOLOF | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

...against World War I. On the U.S. side, there would be laser-guided bombs, heat-seeking missiles, devices to lay down an "electronic blanket" suffocating all communications between enemy headquarters and troops in the field, infrared devices supposed to turn night into day for soldiers drawing a bead on hostile troops and armor. The Iraqi forces in Kuwait would rely on an extensive network of minefields, earth berms, razor wire and trenches designed to make an enemy frontal assault as fruitlessly bloody as the British Somme offensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kuwait: If War Begins | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

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