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They are sprinkled through TIME every week: clever, colorful charts and diagrams that grab the eye, tantalize the brain and make one want to read the story. This week's issue is no exception. To illuminate the cover stories on particle physics, artist Joe Lertola created a series of arresting graphics that make even so intricate a subject attractive to the reader...
...Clever Soviet: You should support Gorbachev because he, like Abraham Lincoln, is trying to keep our country together...
...more texts than they now do, and my tutorials were one-on-one with my exegetical indoctrinators. I, too, had to take the same smattering of anthropology, economics, political science, and history courses, as well as an introductory statistics course which I yawned my way through in the same clever-clever conviction that learning to think statistically was a positivist vulgarity...
Sibling rivalry, as everyone knows, is a whiny bore. Only brave souls would dare contemplate it as a movie subject. Only clever (and compassionate) ones could bring it off as well as have screenwriter Mike Binder, adapting a tale out of his own family's mythology, and director Joe Roth, keeping the retelling simple but not too sweet. True to its original material, Coupe de Ville retains the air of a beloved anecdote polished by many spinnings around a family table...
...Miramax began to attract attention with its clever marketing of The Thin Blue Line, a stylish documentary about a wrongful murder conviction in Dallas, and for distributing the Swedish epic Pelle the Conqueror. While profits were modest, Pelle went on to win an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, while The Thin Blue Line became a news sensation: it helped persuade a Texas court to throw out the murder conviction...