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...Janet Reno's Untouchables; DNC officials say they will in the next two weeks return another $1.5 million in donations identified as coming from foreign or other suspect sources, bringing the refund total to more than $3 million since the campaign finance controversy erupted. Clinton has reason to dread his job Wednesday. After all, A-list donors who like to think they?re financing policy may recoil at being asked to replace illegitimate money. They may also be growing wearing of being asked to pony up the very soft money contributions that President Clinton says he wants to make illegal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Night of the Fat Wallets | 6/11/1997 | See Source »

...moral and imaginative." His paintings--mostly of the Hudson Valley and vistas of South American grandeur--were greeted as both religious icons and triumphs of observation, fusing piety and science in one matrix. Church hit a peculiarly American vein of feeling: Romanticism without its European component of alienation and dread, a view of the universe in which God was in heaven and all was basically right with the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SACRED MISSION | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

...some resemblances to Gravity's Rainbow. Both books are huge (the first edition of Gravity's Rainbow ran 760 pages). Both have truncated double dactyls (Duh-duh-duh Duh-duh) as titles. Both manifest Pynchon's trademark narrative rhythm, repeated segues from cartoonish pratfalls into surreal episodes of phantasmagoric dread, punctuated by periodic eruptions of songs or poems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: DRAWING THE LINE | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...What dread grasp / dare its deadly terror clasp...

Author: By Susannah R. Mandel, | Title: Poems, Poets and Poetry at Harvard | 4/24/1997 | See Source »

South Alabama's tenacious defense and great work ethic means it is just the kind of team the free-wheelin' Wildcats will dread running into in the first round...

Author: By Zachary T. Ball, | Title: Must See TV | 3/11/1997 | See Source »

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