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Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, to call it by its rightful name, powerfully reimagines this Victorian myth for the age of AIDS. Dracula (Gary Oldman) is a warrior-wooer impaled on the cross of his love; he must track his obsession until he is released from it. His misery gives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Vampire With Heart . . . | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

Now comes an even more sophisticated effort to tame the VCR. The VCR Voice Programmer, a voice-activated remote-control device being launched nationally this week by Voice Powered Technology, eliminates button pushing almost entirely. Just bark commands into the microphone -- channel number, day, time -- and the machine does your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Anybody Work This Thing? | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

But Ho Chi Minh and his followers did not see themselves that way. Yes, they believed in communism, which provided them with a combination of mentality and methods well suited to prevailing in war (but not in peace): discipline and self-sacrifice, brutally enforced. They were glad to have support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: The War That Will Not End | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

The mecca of the "game" was located at a tall stop sign at the center of the Astrohall, where the building branches off in six directions. At that spot, it was common to see up to a dozen fanatics crowding in a circle, engaged in a bidding war for key...

Author: By Jonathon Samuels, | Title: Back in Houston | 10/29/1992 | See Source »

The owners created a system engineered toward financial disaster, particularly for small market clubs. Owners spent money, according to former Commissioner Peter V. Ueberroth, like "a bunch of drunken sailors." In attempts engaged in bidding wars and players' salaries escalated (an overall 3,000 percent increase over the last 22...

Author: By Adam D. Taxin, | Title: Tarnished Diamonds | 10/28/1992 | See Source »

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