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That raspy drawl, the salt-and-pepper hair, a doughnut-stuffed belly hanging over his belt. Others in Primary Colors tried to steer clear of real-life inspiration; John Travolta became a Bill Clinton clone. It took weeks to master the familiar vocal cadence and body language, but the feel-your-pain sincerity came easier. "The scary thing about this part is, take away the Southern accent and gray hair, and I don't respond that differently to people," he says, dunking a taquito into a lump of guacamole as he unwinds in his trailer after work. "I'm good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The People's Choice | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

Harry Reasoner recently took TIME to task on ABC-TV for certain instances of its obsessional and below-the-belt reporting on Watergate, which he said had betrayed the canons of both objective and ethical journalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sounding Off, Talking Back | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...their performance against each other can easily make or break a season. From the rafters of Leede Arena in Hanover hang banners representing Dartmouth's 11 women's basketball championships, most of any Ivy League school. For its part Harvard added a third consecutive notch to its championship belt with Friday's 77-62 win over Yale...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: The Greene Line | 3/4/1998 | See Source »

...Belt Champ, ESPN...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON DECK | 3/3/1998 | See Source »

Perhaps it was Youngman's first break, back in the Borscht Belt Catskills of the 1920s, that taught him the virtue of volume. The professed "Milton Berle groupie" was fronting Henny Youngman and the Swanee Syncopaters at the Swan Lake Inn when the club owner, hearing Youngman tell his jokes between songs, decided to save money by firing the band and telling the funnyman to stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Henny Youngman, 1906-1998 | 2/25/1998 | See Source »

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