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...maybe we won't. The sad fact is that in an attempt to crush the remnants of class consciousness the rites of May 1st have been replaced with a day of beer and barbecues in early September...

Author: By Gabriel B. Eber, | Title: Bring Back the May Pole | 4/26/1997 | See Source »

...Rainbow Pool, lying serenely between Lincoln and Washington, is one of the most exquisite points along this pristine vista. A monument of any kind would violate its openness and delicacy. A World War II memorial would crush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DON'T BUILD IT HERE! | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

...subject so huge requires a site that can accommodate its hugeness. Yet any memorial true to the war would crush the site. And any memorial true to the site would slight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DON'T BUILD IT HERE! | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

...Fall ready-to-wear shows in Paris, the most important bazaar on the fashion calendar, were in full crush. At Dior, house of the very hot designer John Galliano, the props indicated that the young maestro had been thinking hard about a dreamland Orient. As the crowds tripped around the delicate bridge to nowhere on their way to find or steal seats, one conservatively dressed businessman waited quietly in the shadows. Galliano may get the attention, but, murmured Bernard Arnault, "I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: THE POPE OF FASHION | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

...fast enough, a meteorologist wryly commented, to capture the attention of politicians. To put a change of this magnitude in perspective, a mere 2[degree] drop in global temperatures during the 13th century started the "Little Ice Age" that wiped out the Vikings' Greenland colony, spurred glaciers to crush villages in Europe and contributed to periodic episodes of starvation and mass migration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANTARCTICA | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

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