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...matter. For personal reasons I probably couldn't dislike this show if I tried. I have owned four large-bore bikes in my time, two of which (a Norton Commando and the great, purring, canonical 1970 Honda CB750) are in this show; and although I gave up riding after totaling a Kawasaki, and nearly myself, on a highway in Southern California some 25 years ago, I still rarely see a bike I don't like and can't suppress a twinge of envy when some yuppie on a postmodernist Japanese burner splits the lanes of the Long Island Expressway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Going Out On The Edge | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...sheet. Vittorio Innocente--the name itself doesn't travel light--lives unanchored in a Toronto of immigrants, with nothing, as he says, but his freedom. Driving around town in his late father's Oldsmobile, he cannot slough off his mother's infidelity and the out-of-wedlock child she bore, while dying herself, on the passage to America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Sins Of The Old World | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...candidates sat in front of a colorful banner that bore the slogan, "It's not over until you win," and candidates seemed to take the motto to heart...

Author: By Jennifer M. Siegel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Candidates for 8th District Square Off at Debate | 8/7/1998 | See Source »

...Ballet, she was last seen walking through her home in a nightgown one morning last week. Police found blood drops outside the house and noticed that the suspicious Guerin was missing himself. A New York City detective who saw a sketch of him on television realized that he bore a striking resemblance to a Kenneth Kimes, who had been arrested just the previous day with his mother Sante on an outstanding fraud warrant from Utah. The detective had a good eye. "Manny Guerin" was apparently an alias for Kenneth Kimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Landlady Vanishes | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

Police suspect the Kimeses may have been trying to relieve Silverman of her multimillion-dollar home. A notary public has come forward to say that Kenneth Kimes and an unidentified woman called him to the mansion to notarize a document that already bore a signature reading "Irene Silverman." When he asked the woman to sign another piece of paper so he could check her signature, she hesitated and he left. When they were arrested, the Kimeses reportedly had Silverman's passport and financial documents with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Landlady Vanishes | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

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