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...hope the next half is just as exciting," admits that a brain operation after a fall has left him feeling less than sprightly. But Burns knows that the secret to longevity is equanimity. "Nothing ever bothers him," says his longtime friend Barry Mirkin. "I call him the love bug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 22, 1996 | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

...cats who were overconfident and lazy, who just didn't work as hard. Take the case of Buster Douglas, Jr., who beat a seemingly indomitable but actually flabby and pariah-surrounded Mike Tyson one glorious night in Japan five years ago. Buster then was bitten by the overconfidence bug that bit Tyson, and was knocked silly by Evander Holyfield. (Buster has since ballooned to a 400-pound man with dread locks. "I always hated fighting," he says...

Author: By Mayer Bick, | Title: Underdog Days | 12/5/1995 | See Source »

...half a dozen or so college grads. It's an upmarket Clerks, a less fraught Jeffrey, Barcelona with a faster pulse--or maybe Friends on PBS. Grover (Josh Hamilton) doesn't want his girlfriend Jane (Olivia d'Abo) to go study in Prague--she'll "come back a bug." Max (Chris Eigeman), a guy so jaded that every new experience is deja vu, falls in with cheeky Kate (Cara Buono). Chet (Eric Stoltz) is a professional student, and Otis (the delightfully morose Carlos Jacott) apparently plans to make a career of losing. They all share an avocation: chatting. The young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: BACK CHAT | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

Clearly there's some mythologizing going on here, because hunters manage to kill some 650,000 turkeys every year, but there's no question that turkeys, whose eyes bug out on each side of their head, have close to 360[-degree] vision, and their hearing is pretty good too. My Missouri friend was a bow hunter, which means he was more interested in hunting than eating. He said that you had to call a turkey to within 25 yards of where you were lying, camouflaged, with your bow at full draw, to have a chance of killing one with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOBBLING OF AMERICA | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

...only so much you can take. Phil wants it too much." Actually, Dole maintains, "I think I've been pretty good at not letting him get the better of me. But he won't stop. He's relentless. He doesn't value being responsible. He's like a bug you step on that keeps crawling around no matter how hard you squish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WILL THE REAL BOB DOLE PLEASE STAND UP? | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

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