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...affiliate, fly across downtown Washington, strike an antenna on the roof of the Capitol building and zip down a cable into the Thomas P. O'Neill Room two floors below. There, before an audience of Senators, Congressmen and assorted commissioners, magician Harry Blackstone Jr. will draw back a black cloth and reveal the first image ever to be broadcast in digital high-definition television: a razor-sharp picture of a fluttering American flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Picture Suddenly Gets Clearer | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

Although, in Dream Play, we did do a lot with cloth and paper, and Rommilly will have a little cloth--a scene with a lot of bed sheets was written even before I joined the project-- and a lot of paper, because he's a writer, there's a lot of paper...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, | Title: Interpretations of Hans Canosa: Talking Theater With a Student Director | 3/19/1992 | See Source »

...weekend during which he had raised $130,000 for his campaign, seemed like a tacit admission of guilt, he insisted that in his case the allegations -- which range from uninvited fondling of women to drugging their drinks, undressing them and purportedly raping one -- had been "created out of whole cloth." His reaction on reading the stories: "That's not me." He said he quit the race because he could not fight back without confronting his accusers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Quote Me, But . . . | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

Before an audience of 40, Ko said that to bind a child's foot a mother would break the toes of her six-year old daughter, bend them forward and bind them beneath the heel with a long piece of cloth...

Author: By William C. Slaughter, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Speaker Talks on Footbinding | 3/4/1992 | See Source »

With disarming naturalness, Ulvang seems to embody the Olympic Charter's principle of creating "a way of life based on the joy found in effort." He's a winner cut from fresh, unbleached cloth. Perhaps a champion whose training segues so perfectly into his recreation can only emerge in a sport that doesn't need jumps or rinks, just snow and distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1992 Winter Olympics: The Viking's Conquest | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

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