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If the Geneva summit did not set a press attendance record (14,000 covered last year's Democratic Convention in San Francisco, for example), it probably rates at least an asterisk for the most reporters and technicians on hand to collect the least news. The event also marked Moscow's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Filling Up the Empty Hours | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

And birthday parties as well. On Halloween Sal, Ron and 2,600 Rockyites--some from as far away as Montreal, London, Sacramento, Winston-Salem, N.C., and the Bronx--made a pilgrimage to Manhattan's cavernous Beacon Theater for a tenth-anniversary bash. Sal presented sham Oscars to each of seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Across the Land: The Voice of Rocky Horror | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

The swampy, semitropical wilderness in southern Florida called the Everglades lies in a peculiar bowl-shaped depression that was bound to arouse the curiosity of geologists. They concluded years ago that the distinctive cavity was probably formed over many aeons as ground water slowly dissolved a surface layer of limestone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida Bowl: An Everglades asteroid? | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Simon's Boudu is often described as prehippie; Nolte's Jerry, it figures, is posthippie. But the effect is the same. He is gloriously rude, insufferably arrogant. He dislocates respectable convention with everything from his table manners to his sexual morality, eventually bedding every female in the house, including the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sugary Satire: DOWN AND OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

The convention ended in a shambles of fisticuffs and name-calling. The apparent loser was Shamir, who failed to win a vote of confidence. "You'll never be Prime Minister!" shouted his opponents. Shamir insisted that he would not accept the post anyway if his party did not support him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: A Fight in The Family | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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