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...deeper concern is that American business, which is now the envy of the world for its profitability and ruthless efficiency, could fall off that pedestal if it takes on too many social issues. "Business exists to make a profit," says John Hood, president of the John Locke Foundation, a North Carolina-based public-policy think tank. "When you lose sight of that, you lose the unique benefits that come from being highly focused in a competitive market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEW WORLD OF GIVING | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...already the locals know her as the woman who matched Jackie Chan stunt for impossible stunt in Police Story III: Super Cop. And maybe they think that punishing her body for film art--by, say, leaping off the top of a runaway truck to land splat! on the hood of Chan's speeding convertible--is all Michelle Yeoh does. She recalls that on one of her first L.A. photo shoots, "The beautician told me, 'You know, for a stuntwoman you have gorgeous nails.' Well, thank you, but I'm an actress who just happens to enjoy doing my own stunts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: EVERYBODY SAY YEOH! | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...just try to change a few words here and there, so it has a more universal understanding, like the Statute of Liberty, or what-have-you. I mean, Robin Hood lives in the forest. In England. He's not in Central Park; so what...

Author: By Cicely V. Wedgeworth, | Title: How We Gonna Pay for Rent? | 4/3/1997 | See Source »

...shelf model. One of the systems used last week, the Hunter drone powered by a $53,000 motorcycle engine, has already been killed by the Pentagon for poor performance. In all, the Army spent $258 million outfitting EXFOR, the 1st Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division of Fort Hood, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WIRED FOR WAR | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...Dialogue scenes are conducted in a reverent whisper; only the brakes screech, just after a climax or before a death. Even the carnographic love play--in which each character has predictably weird sex with most of the others--is too studied. The fine actors disport themselves solemnly, like giant hood ornaments of lust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SLOW-MOVING VIOLATION | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

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