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Motorola has been one of the most pugnacious U.S. companies in trying to enter the Japanese marketplace. The suburban Chicago company's efforts paid off last week in a double win. Against a field that included Japanese bidders, Motorola won the $35 million annual contract to install a cellular-phone network for the Tokyo area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: Ring, Ring: Tokyo Calling | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

Borne into the U.S. on private jets, inside the scuzzy trunks of old cars or even on flimsy rubber rafts equipped with cellular phones, the shipments of human cargo are surging. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 was supposed to stem this tide, mostly by beefing up enforcement and nabbing employers who hire these aliens. But the number of illegals apprehended by federal agents, 954,000 in 1989, is suddenly rising sharply. In a perverse way, IRCA has enhanced the smuggling trade by motivating undocumented aliens to plan their trips more carefully. Result: up to half the estimated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Freedom | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

With an elegantly attired airport concierge, burgundy porcelain sinks, an ultra-cellular "Seatfone" attached to every other seat and an in-flight magazine featuring articles on "Collectors Items For Under $10,000" for cost-conscious Yuppies, the Trump Shuttle is the perfect way to arrive at that power lunch in style...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: One Trump, No Heart | 4/4/1990 | See Source »

...spires, bosses and moldings, be so fully rendered in terms of color and the space that color creates? Monet's control is astounding. With the sun behind it, the facade is a looming cliff of blue shadows; as the light moves onto its face, it becomes a stupendously intricate cellular structure, a vertical reef of stone, its grain and warmth evoked by the texture of the paint, flushed by radiance, in which every last touch of pigment seems operative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Letting Nature Reign Resplendent | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

...drug dealer, Danny is the prime suspect in the murder of Lauren's lover, Dr. Tohlson, who has found a way to use fetal tissue to preserve youth. To prove his innocence, Danny embarks on a journey through the culture of Southern California, where fast sex, fast cars (with cellular phones) and fast money pass for the Trinity. He meets the Uber-twins, Boyd and Lloyd, Tohlson's guinea pigs, as stupid as they are strong. There is also Cubanito, a drug dealer who hates the sloppiness of killing and reads FORTUNE so that he can diversify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unsafe Sex | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

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