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...curse of Elton John's music is that every song on every album has eyes to be a hit single. These are super-productions, aural Busby Berkeley numbers, ascending an oratorical mountain to the sky-rocketing crescendo. And, on Made in England, they sound swell; there's heft and meaning in the songs--no throwaways. "Since I've been sober I've made three albums, and this is the best," he says. "Getting adjusted to a new way of life takes time. You don't go from 16 years of taking drugs to instant tranquillity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROARING BACK | 3/13/1995 | See Source »

...bear in amassing 43 career victories over nine years. Although Tomba competes only in slalom and giant-slalom races--he does not ski the downhill, super-giant slalom or combined races, the other three ingredients in World Cup competition--he has made his two events a near monopoly. His heft helps, no doubt, but championship form comes more from his total focus on building speed and calculating the tightest turns around the gates. ``He doesn't make the mistakes he used to, like leaning back on his skis,'' says Roberto Della Torre, deputy editor of the Italian monthly Sciare. ``Compared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOMBAMANIA! SKIING'S ALBERTO TOMBA | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

...American audiences, is available to anyone who visits the United States Holocaust Memorial. The information embarrasses us; it shames us. It announces to all Americans the awesome burden our nation shoulders for its paltry response to a great crime. The Memorial reminds us of the sheer heft of memory...

Author: By E; K/ Rascpff, | Title: A Lapse In Memory | 2/3/1995 | See Source »

...like the last recession (and, for that matter, the economic recovery), America's new heft is not evenly distributed. The bone-thin models in the fashion ads seem to live only in slivers of the U.S. along the two coasts -- primarily in New York City and Los Angeles. The people in the country's midsection, points out Dr. Michael Jensen, who treats obese people at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic, tend to be beefier. "There's a lot less social pressure to maintain a lean weight in the Midwest," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fat Times What health craze? | 1/16/1995 | See Source »

...intelligent and exhaustingly researched biography of Lawrence, Brenda Maddox succeeds in raising her subject above the level of talented pornographer. The 600 page-plus D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage, is a volume of Mailer-ish manly heft. Nevertheless, the author manages to sustain the reader's interest throughout, allowing Lawrence to stand on his own--contradictions...

Author: By Daley C. Haggar, | Title: Lawrence More Than Pornographer | 12/1/1994 | See Source »

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