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...worked on his father's 1988 presidential campaign and, he has said, "earned his spurs" in the old man's eyes. He helped put together the group that bought the Texas Rangers baseball team and plotted a run for Governor. It was as if someone had thrown a cosmic switch and his future came into focus. "Let's face it, George was not real happy [in Midland]," says oilman Joseph O'Neill, one of his closest friends. "It's the first-son syndrome. You want to live up to the very high expectations set by your father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How George Got His Groove | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...When she swivels aboard a cruise ship in clinging jersey and a floor-length leopard-skin scarf and matching muff, she handily offends feminists, animal-rights activists and good Christians everywhere, and she wins, because shimmering, jewel-encrusted, heedless movie stardom defeats all common morality. Her wit completes her cosmic victory, particularly in her facial expression of painful, soul-wrenching yearning when gazing upon a diamond tiara, a trinket she initially attempts to wear around her neck. Discovering the item's true function, she burbles, "I always love finding new places to wear diamonds!" Movies can offer a very specific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Blond MARILYN MONROE | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...things and owning things and having things and not being able to let go of things, is the opposite of compassion--of not thinking of yourself all the time. These are the two sides--the good force and the bad force. They're the simplest parts of a complex cosmic construction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Myth And Men | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

MOYERS: So while Star Wars is about cosmic, galactic epic struggles, it's at heart about a family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Myth And Men | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...American radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson accidentally discover cosmic background radiation, which bolsters the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Century of Science | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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