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...high, aptly named saw grass. But the discomfort of being hacked at by razor-sharp weeds became fond memories when the trail suddenly zoomed up the mountain at a 70 degrees incline. For almost a mile straight up, there was less a path than a series of tenuous toeholds dug into sticky red clay. Several other equally steep but shorter climbs that followed made the six-mile journey a five-hour ordeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Expeditions: My Search for Colonel Scharf | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

Road picture, feminist parable and populist comedy, this tale of two ladies looking for adventure and getting more than they bargained for outraged the humor-handicapped, but dug into the ribs of the ribald. In the title roles, Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon were gloriously wiggy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991 | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

Road picture, feminist parable and populist comedy, this tale of two ladies looking for adventure and getting more than they bargained for outraged the humor-handicapped, but dug into the ribs of the ribald. In the title roles, Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon were gloriously wiggy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991:Cinema | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...have on your hands, Mr. President, the lives of the 30,000.' We'd ordered 50,000 body bags. I think that was the figure they used. That'll show you. They had a picture in one of the magazines of endless numbers of graves that had been dug somewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency 'Twas a Famous Victory | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...wife Alexandra are determined not to give up the pigs or the dozen ducks they keep in two ramshackle wood shacks on their 15-sq.-yd. plot. In fact, the couple seem to be settling in for a long siege. "Around here, they steal," says Torzhenko, so he has dug a cellar with concrete walls and a heavy metal trapdoor to store pork and the potatoes he grows on a parcel of rural land in this rich, black-earth region. "I trust Mikhail Gorbachev when it comes to one thing," he adds. "He said there would be famine -- and there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Unmerry Christmas | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

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