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Beyond the black steel spikes, tall forbidding trees and gimlet eye of a surveillance camera repairs this modern Circe: Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone. The air is perfumed with the sweet fragrance of a floating garland of fresh gardenias. She plies a visitor with strong drink and cunning smiles. Within earshot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madonna In Bloom: MADONNA | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

Scientology is now run by David Miscavige, 31, a high school dropout and second-generation church member. Defectors describe him as cunning, ruthless and so paranoid about perceived enemies that he kept plastic wrap over his glass of water. His obsession is to attain credibility for Scientology in the 1990s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power | 5/6/1991 | See Source »

The public chose well. For here, in 356 episodes of primal prime time, were the central conflicts of American life. Country (the Ewing home at Southfork Ranch) fought with city (the Ewing Oil building in downtown Dallas). Cowboys corralled oil slickers. Sons (J.R. and Bobby) double-crossed each other for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goodbye To Gaud Almighty | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

Chaos reigns. Then Bob Strauss, the party's guru in chief, comes onto the podium. For President, he intones in a syrupy drawl, we must nominate a great American and my fellow Texan -- George Bush. During the stunned silence that follows, Strauss adds a cunning hook: For Vice President, we...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You Can't Beat Bush . . . | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

The prospects going into the war were horrifying: the fourth largest army in the world, commanded by a thug whom we thought cunning at the time and even invested with satanic powers. Saddam was armed with chemical weapons and was working on the nuclear kind. All those dark possibilities gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Moment for the Dead | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

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