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...medieval German Emperor Frederick II, surrounded by a retinue that included his harem, passed by en route to the Sixth Crusade. And older men in Maida still recalled the day Garibaldi and his Redshirts rode through the village, vowing to free the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies from lethargic Bourbon rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Double Agents in Exile | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

...three companies are among dozens of well-known corporate giants that have collected money under a USDA program to find new overseas markets for American food, candy, bourbon, wine, ginseng, cotton, mink pelts and bovine semen...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: The News Of the Weird | 2/8/1992 | See Source »

...Moscow on the Hudson, in Garp) -- his life was pretty much a mess. "I think I had my mid- life crisis at around 27," says Williams, who was 26 when Mork & Mindy went on the air. In addition to too much trivial sex, there was too much vodka and bourbon and way too much cocaine. "It was like symbiotic abuse. It was Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Williams. The bloated fish," he calls his early-'80s self. "The Michelin poster child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Peter Pan for Yuppies: ROBIN WILLIAMS | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

...case could be made that its author is the most gifted and prodigious humorist the U.S. has heard from since the old steamboat pilot ran aground. Prophetic stuff too. One doubter, + foreseeing the twilight of radio, broods that "they will invent something. It'll have the same effect as bourbon but it won't give you headaches or upset the stomach, so it'll be used even by the kiddos. It'll earn gazillions. And boys, they are not going to deal us in on that hand." What Keillor has sketched is the West in Spenglerian decline, with cable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ghosts of Studio B | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

...school in her backyard, and his late father Andrew, who served briefly as an elementary school principal. Lamar began piano lessons at four and studied diligently through his freshman year at Vanderbilt. Today he can deftly play Chopin or pound out rocket-top country piano, as he did in Bourbon Street watering holes while clerking for Federal Judge John Minor Wisdom after his 1965 graduation from New York University law school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Bush's Point Man | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

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