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...thirtysomething Martha Horgan makes an odd heroine, lacking, as she does, all the protective and intuitive senses society demands. Her job at the local dry cleaner is so comforting, compared to the rest of her daily experiences, that Martha often shows up on her day off. Morris triumphantly evokes the sad, vivid life of a character excluded, for reasons she cannot grasp, from the magic circle of friendship and family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991 | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...never saw it. But from my brother's description, it consisted of a vaccum-cleaner-type machine attached to a long, thin cord. You found a bug on the wall, and you pulled the cord over. Then, you sucked...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Peaceful Coexistence | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

...fake." Listeners who agree with Rush shout "Mega-dittos" as a greeting. Those who don't agree, he says, endanger his concept of "safe talk" (to guarantee which Limbaugh once placed a condom over his microphone) and may get a "caller abortion." They are cut off, with vacuum-cleaner noises and a woman's scream in the background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man. A Legend. A What!? | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

While TWA will emerge with a cleaner balance sheet, it is still stuck with a frayed route structure and one of the oldest fleets in the world (80% of its jets are more than 10 years old, vs. 35% for industry leader American). Says Edward Starkman, who follows the airline industry for PaineWebber: "TWA is one of the great weaklings of the business. The capital required to turn this company around would make your head spin: tens of billions of dollars in new planes alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Struggling to Stay Aloft | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

...Terminator, Hamilton's Sarah Connor evolved from a klutzy waitress to a warrior woman who crushed the killer robot in a hydraulic press and spat out the immortal line: "You're terminated, f---er." In T2 Sarah is a guerrilla gone south, dynamiting computer facilities, threatening to inject drain cleaner into the veins of her captors, stashing weapons with her own righteous version of the Baader-Meinhof Gang. She is a more twisted sister of Sigourney Weaver's Ripley in Aliens (also written and directed by T2's James Cameron), who proves her maternal mettle by blasting a space monster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Can't A Woman Be a Man? | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

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