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What do people think they're getting, or escaping, in the dream machines that some owners don't realize are, in fact, trucks? A good bet is that they are scampering away from the honk and fuss and double parking of the world that cars created. TV and magazine ads invariably show pickups and sports utility vehicles parked on a mountain spire or riverside gravel bar, with no pavement or other traffic in sight. Sure. Whether they can get you there in actuality is not important. Even if they are filling-looseners that drive like trucks on washboarded gravel roads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH RIDE AND HANDSOME | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

...what exactly is the fuss? By now we ought to be used to the tired old rituals of campaign populism, in which the candidates don windbreakers and stage photo-ops with obliging factory hands before rushing back to the $1,000-a-plate fund-raising dinners where they commiserate with the big-money guys about those pesky "labor costs" and the need to accelerate the upward redistribution of wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE UNREAL THING | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

...white audience, because the movie isn't playing real well in white communities.' My point is that you really don't get it, do you? This is about black people." Only now, she says, are whites, especially women, coming out to the theaters to see for themselves what the fuss is about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEAVY BREATHING: WAITING TO EXHALE | 1/15/1996 | See Source »

...from the tragedy. The Beatles' last album to be issued, Let It Be, came out the month of the Kent State killings. The group's music was the soundtrack of the '60s, and the Anthology footage makes for a compelling, long-form music video, a reminder of what the fuss was all about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GET BACK | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

...claim that most Americans really believe he's innocent. And Woody Allen, who three years ago was show biz's most notorious middle-age male, keeps making movies whose plots reflect, excuse and promote his lustlorn escapades. Both guys are fallen idols who have trouble understanding what all the fuss was about. They want America to take an amnesia pill so they can get back to their work: being loved in public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: WOODY ALLEN: WHEN ART REDEEMS LIFE | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

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