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...been going since she started, the youngest of seven children on a beef and hay farm in the Atlanta suburbs. "The house is real sequestered away from people," says Hunter in a lilting twang punctuated by the occasional dadgummit. "The farm isn't groomed -- there's a kind of wildness to the place. It's beautiful, a little Nirvana down there." Holly was the willful tomboy. "My father did not approve of my learning to drive a tractor," she says, "which is probably why I'm so stubborn. He made the rules, and I broke them. But, like everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Holly Hunter Takes Hollywood | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...Israel, the son of a Manhattan attorney, left law school for flower power in Woodstock, N.Y. There he learned alternative life-styles, the necessity of making a living, and carpentry. He later settled on a hardscrabble cow farm in East Corinth, Vt., to raise what he calls "organic beef." But he could never pilot his vintage motorcycle past a pile of old junk without stopping. "I'd always been a collector," he says, "but never had enough money to collect the stuff everybody else was collecting. Nobody else wanted salvage then. This stuff was made by craftsmen who worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Salvaged Pieces | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

What if somebody is killed during play? It's possible. More and more beef is flying around faster and faster. Players get meaner and meaner. The escalation may result in an incident in which one player will never...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Hockey Goons: Dinosaurs Of The '80s | 12/12/1987 | See Source »

Last week Mayor Coleman Young declared an all-out war on crack, promising to beef up the city's narcotics squads and shut down at least twelve crack houses a day. Said Young: "We're going to hit them and hit them hard. If we can establish a probable cause, we're prepared to break down doors." With an estimated 10,000 crack houses now operating in the city, the mayor and his men have their work cut out for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Narcotics: Cracking Down On Crack | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...nine years. Part of that decline came about because many farmers have reduced acreage under cultivation and the size of their herds. But, at the same time, unusually low feed and fuel prices have helped farms cut the cost of producing a bushel of grain or a pound of beef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeds Of Recovery in the Farmbelt | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

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