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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assignment to create a new midsize car, he and chief engineer Francois Castaing physically began tearing down and breaking apart clay models, pulling out the wheels until they stood at the edge of the metal, stretching them to the very extremes front and back, pushing the windshield over the hood until it began to look like the front of a locomotive. The changes opened up the height, width and interior space in ways that had never been experienced in similar-size cars. The result was a design as instantly recognizable and distinctive as Harley Earl's fins, one that almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chrysler's Curve Master | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

...make mistakes. But Sharon Curley's (Tina Kellegher) is a beaut. It's not just that in a careless, definitely not rapturous, moment she manages to get knocked up. It's that the man who bent her back over the hood of a car outside a pub one drunken night is old enough to be her father. Is, indeed, a friend of her father's. Is, in fact, George Burgess (Pat Laffan), who lives across the street and coaches the football team of one of her younger brothers. Is, incurably, an "ejit" (idiot in Dublin slang), the kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chaos of Life, Irish-Style | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

Want to learn about the way the human brain works? Don't open up a textbook. Just lift the hood of your...

Author: By Lana Israel, | Title: Into The Recesses of Your Mind | 11/16/1993 | See Source »

...that reason, a vote for state-hood wouldhave been more effective than a vote forcommonwealth status, said second-year law studentAndres W. Lopez '92, who supports independence...

Author: By Leondra R. Kruger, | Title: Students Follow Puerto Rico Vote | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

Tupac Shakur seems to be enjoying as much material success as Snoop. Besides racking up strong sales for his second album, Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z., last summer he played a postal worker who romances Janet Jackson in Poetic Justice, the film by Boyz N the Hood director John Singleton. But judging from his background, Shakur might have been a shooter no matter what career he had pursued. In a sense he was doing time even before he was born. His mother Afeni is a former Black Panther, one of a group accused in the early 1970s of conspiring to plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shootin' Up the Charts | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

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