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Like a storybook character, the humblest wild-card team followed the thorniest of al1 the play-off routes, a treacherous path that wound through New Jersey (the Jets) and Los Angeles (the Raiders) before coming out at Miami's impregnable Orange Bowl. Since 1966, the Pats had opposed the Dolphins there 18 times and won exactly never. Coach Don Shula's division champions split two games with New England this season, home and away, but the third try turned out to be charming (and emphatic, 31-14). "I feel like Alice in Wonderland was a true story, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Sudden Flash of Patriotism | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Several years before the Rams reached the Super Bowl, Defensive End Fred Dryer and Teammate Lance Rentzel spoofed the famous hype by crashing the press box in the '20s guise of Front-Page Reporters Cubby O'Switzer and Scoops Brannigan. Each carried a "press" card in his cap and a $50 bill in his kit for flashing at bellhops and other cheap purposes. "After that, I couldn't help but smile at the Super Bowl," says Dryer, 39, for whom acting has become a profession. He plays Police Detective Hunter on television. "When all the over-coaching, overpreparing and overwriting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life's Not a Bowl Of Any Single Thing | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...through an illustrative language based on cubism. It is legible cubism, shorn of its ambiguities. Under the modern surface, there is always a hint of the sublime, the transcendental, perilously near to kitsch--Crystal Cathedral uplift, the fount of much hotel-lobby art and many a "serious" get-well card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Velocipede of Modernism | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...foot was tapping off the seconds, a reflex planted more than 50 years ago in the soul of a fledgling broadcaster. Morris cradled a tiny black notebook in his left hand and with a thin-line pen jotted down his observation. Later, he transcribed his notes to a file card that went into a growing mass of research on Reagan the man and President, to be distilled into a biography after Reagan leaves office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The White House as Theater | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Besides, the Administration has not really pursued a diplomatic solution in a serious and realistic way. Whenever the Sandinistas have put a card on the table, the Administration has upped the ante, asking the Sandinistas to negotiate away their power within the country, which they are simply not going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Why Congress Should Approve Contra Aid | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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