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...Line of Fire. Well, here comes another movie that deploys similar elements, including deeply satisfying star performances and high-energy directorial craftsmanship. The difference between them arises from a couple of simple role reversals. In The Fugitive the criminal is actually an innocent man: Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford), a surgeon falsely accused of murdering his wife. The lawman -- a U.S. marshal named Sam Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones) -- is the character in the grips of a dangerous obsession, namely to capture the eponymous escapee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Renewing An Old Duel | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

Doug* took his older brother's Ford pickup truck, which has a nice deep rumble and gives Doug's budding tough-guy image some clout. With a blue baseball cap tipped low over his eyebrows, the slightly built sophomore waited in the parking lot, smoking Kools one after another and staring awkwardly at other male customers as they stepped out of their cars. Finally, one man nodded slightly in reply and waved Doug over to his car. Doug walked slowly, attempting a saunter. The man popped his trunk open, and Doug peered inside at a shiny pile of handguns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Boy and His Gun | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

Doug floors his Ford truck through a yellow light, turns sharply and then slows, carefully checking out the other cars as he cruises the largely white working-class neighborhoods of Benson. He points to a light blue, wood-frame house. Dozens of pellet holes from two shotgun blasts scar the wall on either side of the front door. In the driveway, an elderly man tinkers with a blue Chevy Caprice, which is also riddled with holes. Doug drives by slowly, confident he won't be recognized. "We did that three months ago. Monday night about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Boy and His Gun | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

REPUBLICANS VS. DEMOCRATS: David Gergen worked for Nixon, Ford and, most prominently, Ronald Reagan. Now he works for the man pledged to undo all the terrible effects of Reaganism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monitor: With Enemies Like These ? | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...busily expanding production and calling back laid-off workers. Plants are humming along at 80% of capacity, up from an average of 75% over the past 20 years. U.S. automakers have recalled 41,000 workers so far in 1993. While Chrysler has just 200 workers still on furlough, Ford has begun limited hiring at several plants to help it roll out the 14 new models the company plans to introduce in the next two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Motown Turns a Corner | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

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