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...ride or two days of travel and don't take a $300 chomp out of Mom and Dad's paycheck. Popping up along highways across the country, the supermarket-size playpens are quickly capturing the niche between mega-theme parks and video arcades. The range of activities -- batting cages, bumper boats, go-cart tracks -- lures exhausted parents, bored teenagers and desperate baby sitters who prefer to spend $5 on one good ride rather than a $40 flat rate for access to a dozen their kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Not Putting with Pluto, But It's Very Close | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

...fascination with the Bobbitts and the Simpsons and the rest of them. We live in a culture that fetishizes the family as the ideal unit of human community, the perfect container for our lusts and loves. Politicians of both parties are aggressively "pro-family," even abortion-rights bumper stickers proudly link "pro-family" and "pro- choice." Only with the occasional celebrity crime do we allow ourselves to think the nearly unthinkable: that the family may not be the ideal and perfect living arrangement after all -- that it can be a nest of pathology and a cradle of gruesome violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh, Those Family Values | 7/18/1994 | See Source »

...argue that any departure from the version of events he gave in his police interview -- when he presumably repeated his insistence that he was not involved in the killings at all -- shows that, in general, he can't be believed. Dilemmas like that are one reason for a new bumper sticker on the L.A. freeways: "Pray for O.J." If he's innocent, he'll need the help. If he's guilty, he'll need it even more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing to the Crowd | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

There's a bumper sticker you see occasionally when you're driving down the Long Island Expressway, and it captures perfectly the sentiment of many a New York hockey...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Confessions of a Killjoy New Yorker | 6/29/1994 | See Source »

...least 20 criminal investigations and has twice beat charges that he tried, while out of office, to rig the state's program to certify hospitals -- pocketing $1.9 million in the process. During Edwards' 1991 campaign, a closely watched race against former Klansman David Duke, one of his supporters' favorite bumper stickers read, Vote for the Crook. It's Important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: While The Gettin's Good | 6/20/1994 | See Source »

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