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The sport has also aggressively encouraged corporations to do business entertaining at the track, whether they rent a box above the speedway or paint their logos across the hoods of 720-h.p. racers. "Things that women are involved in purchasing are showing up a lot more," notes Brown. Traditional sponsors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BLOWING THE WHEELS OFF BUBBA | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

Still, the film is more entertaining than one might have expected. The backstage network shenanigans have been deftly digested (by Carter, who co-wrote the screenplay, and director Betty Thomas), and the movie gives a good picture, in broad strokes, of how the TV business runs: badly, most of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: STUPID NETWORK TRICKS | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

Khan's elegant new album Night Song (Real World/Caroline) takes the singer in a more worldly direction. Collaborating with Canadian producer-guitarist Michael Brook, Khan ventures into songs about earthly rather than religious love. On the song My Heart, My Life, he also experiments with phrasing that is more direct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: PURE ECSTASY | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

The Buying of the President is not entertaining reading; indeed, it's rarely even well-written, as one might expect from a book authored by a committee, the "Center for Public Integrity." Instead, it offers a straightforward list of dirty deals, some of them so brazen that it makes U.S...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Note to President Buchanan: Read 'em and Weep | 2/22/1996 | See Source »

But wit is only a part of the story or, more accurately, stories. In a culture--ours--in which the national sport is channel surfing, Wallace dares out-of-shape readers to keep up with dozens of oddballs and intermingling plots. One is the tale of the upscale Incandenza clan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAD MAXIMALISM | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

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