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...mind resists reducing cosmogony to cartoons. On the other hand, what could be more in the spirit of Coyote and Road Runner than the Big Bang? Science instructs us that the universe is made of beer suds, or of string. Time bends like a pretzel and vanishes into a black hole. What if the universe is the hysterically funny work of a trickster-comic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARS AS DIVINE CARTOON | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

Welcome to Coral Bay, St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, where they'll keep your beer mug full, but they don't take American Express...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Sailing Away to Buffetville | 8/16/1996 | See Source »

...expressions on the locals' faces were priceless. The middle-aged men sitting around the bar--fully bearded pirates with crooked the teeth and beer bellies--looked satisfied with life and relaxed. Ditto for the women watching the movie intently...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Sailing Away to Buffetville | 8/16/1996 | See Source »

This upsurge in schmaltz is the result of much study. Men, the broadcast industry believes, will watch anything with a bouncing ball or bodies colliding and grunting. But women, the ones who actually go to the store to buy the beer, the pretzels and the kids' Reeboks, require something a little more human and uplifting. So NBC spent millions getting the heart-wrenching stories behind the stories, about 140 of them, on everyone from diver Mary Ellen Clark, whose cancer-stricken father made it to poolside, to the horse Nirvana II, which was an embarrassment to its Thoroughbred family--which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOAP OPERA GAMES | 8/5/1996 | See Source »

...torch for headlines involving the FBI. The 63 TV screens in the workroom of the main press center were full of pictures of debris. The very images of triumphal youth and arriving planes that Atlanta had been hoping to send out, like the inflated Gumby and two-story beer can downtown, seemed beside the point, almost tactless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERROR ON FLIGHT 800: TERROR ON FLIGHT 800 | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

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