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...afternoon"--but she looks doubtful even as she says it. Ultimately, she hopes, the striving for success they've grown up with will check the urge to rebel. "I want to be like Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye and stop these kids from going off the cliff," she says. "But then I look at the breadth of the problem and think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH TIMES AT NEW TRIER HIGH | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

...ridiculous conclusion. A Pepsi ad, for instance, features a boy on the beach drinking a Pepsi who then sucks himself into the bottle. Japp, a European candy bar, runs an ad where a West Indian man, having eaten the candy bar, mistakenly pushes a Porsche over a cliff. The slogan is "Japp--Extra Energy to Push You Over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Is It Live Or Is It Memorex? You Cannes Find Out... | 11/7/1996 | See Source »

...something constructive with the money [by setting up a crisis center] and left you feeling that they were not bitter, bitchy women," says Beverly Hills therapist Carole West. Sugar Rautbord, a divorced Chicago socialite and author of the novel Sweet Revenge, agrees. "It's not about going off a cliff like Thelma and Louise did," she explains. "It's get down to earth, raise your children, get a bank account, buy your own boat, put yourself in a position to get even if you want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HELL HATH NO FURY | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

...took Beckwith and Fisher 19 years to win permission to photograph the six-week-long Dogon Dama funeral ceremony in Mali, in which bodies are wrapped in cloths and hauled 300 ft. up a sheer cliff face to burial caves that have been in use since the 15th century. To get a shot of the interior of one of those caves, the duo had to be lowered from the top of the cliff by means of ropes and handmade ladders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anthropology: LOST AFRICA | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...because rock climbing is safer and easier in the 200 or so rock-climbing gyms that have opened nationwide. These indoor Rockies look Dali surreal. Climbers scale walls up to 70 ft. high, replete with overhangs, and dangle from ceilings made of gray granite or synthetic materials that resemble cliff faces. Color-coded hand- and footholds form routes of varying degrees of difficulty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BIZWATCH | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

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