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...easy task. It requires practice, effort and, like most things in Japan, plenty of organization. At Mazda Motors, employees last spring were busy working out - their holiday plans. In an effort to get them to take time off, Mazda holds an annual "Dream Vacation Contest." Participants describe their ideal getaway, and the winners have their dreams come true at company expense. Last year's winner was Ryuzo Yamaguchi, a training manager, who wanted to enter an international ballroom-dance contest in Britain. With a $3,500 subsidy from Mazda, Yamaguchi and his wife waltzed and tangoed at London's Royal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attention: Hurry Up and Relax | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

...Thelma who spots a really cute hitchhiker by the side of the road and decides she just has to have him. With him she has great sex for the first time in her life. To him -- he's a convenience-store bandit -- she loses all the getaway money that Louise had scraped together from her life savings. But what might have seemed yet another rape, this time of a more symbolic kind, turns out to be a fair exchange. The hitchhiker, using Thelma's hair dryer as a gun substitute, teaches her the tricks of his dubious trade; soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gender Bender Over Thelma & Louise | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

...only decent male the pair encounter is Hal (Harvey Keitel), the detective leading the chase. Mostly they come across a lunatic variety of hunks and lunks. When the men are not sexually objectifying or exploiting the ladies, they are ripping them off. A convenience-store bandit absconds with their getaway money, but not before teaching Thelma the tricks of his trade. "I feel I've got a knack for this," she muses after knocking over her first grocery store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Postcard from the Edge | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

...robbers are crafty. Last year a man who stole $2,100 from a Brooklyn savings bank was mugged as he made his getaway on foot. He reported his loss to the police, who promptly arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: One Bag of Cash, Please | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

...seem like a walking argument for capital punishment. On July 5, 1978, just six months after he completed a 2 1/ 2-year prison term for beating a man to death, Harris and his brother Danny decided to rob a bank in San Diego. Looking first for a getaway car, they spotted two teenage boys parked at a fast-food restaurant. Harris forced the youths to drive to a nearby reservoir, where he shot and killed them. Later, he calmly ate their unfinished hamburgers. Danny testified against his brother and served three years in federal prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Politics of Life and Death | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

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