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...panel with one or two joysticks or a steering wheel and a small TV screen, manipulating the vehicle like someone playing a video game. Light vehicles carry gear that pinpoints the location of the mines for later destruction. Alternatively, tanks push heavy rollers or a metal contraption called a flail that can destroy mines directly. If a big mine blows up the vehicle instead...well, no human is hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THINKING BIG | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

...general rule, writers of fiction are flabbergasted when they read their first screenplays. The dialogue is eye-strainingly self-conscious, the characters flail about with disingenuous emotions and the "stage" directions describe less than clues on a treasure map. Geoff Nicholson's newest novel, Bleeding London, is a book that should have been a screenplay...

Author: By David B. Waller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hemorrhaging Novel | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

...saga of Newt Gingrich's ethics suddenly resembles a brawl between blindfolded boxers who flail away so wildly that each lands a haymaker on his own jaw. About the only certainty is that Gingrich's narrow re-election as Speaker of the House last Tuesday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWT'S DAY OF DELIVERANCE | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

...noticed, has sometimes been brutalized) and praise others, purely as they see fit. The same is true for the music, TV shows and other productions of the far-flung divisions of Time Warner. If any readers or watchdog groups discern a pattern of dishonest judgments, they can (and should) flail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: Oct. 21, 1996 | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

...noticed, has sometimes been brutalized) and praise others, purely as they see fit. The same is true for the music, TV shows and other productions of the far-flung divisions of Time Warner. If any readers or watchdog groups discern a pattern of dishonest judgments, they can (and should) flail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: Oct. 21, 1996 | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

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