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...John Denver was treasured by the boomer generation. They put him alongside George Burns in "Oh God" and they tried to hook their kids, with some success, on "Annie's Song." The LP "John Denver's Greatest Hits" has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide, and is still selling. By all accounts, Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., son of an Air Force pilot, was in life what he was on stage: a lovable hippie environmentalist who sang from the heart and thanked God he was a country boy. And you can bet that whether Denver was cool or not, sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Denver: The Beloved Uncool | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

Frenetic energy is the dominant force propelling GO!--maybe not the most varied but definitely the most adventurous effort by Letter To Cleo. The album's opening right-hook "I Got Time" blasts off into the sonic stratosphere at the heels of Hanley's introduction, "that's the greatest picture I have ever seen/so I stole it for myself so you could see just what I mean/and this alluvial fan it represents my life/I've go the strength the move but...why should I." The beauty of her songwriting lies in its mystery--are the lyrics scatter-brained, piecemeal irrationality...

Author: By Peter A. Hahn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dear Cleo: Keep Up the Good Work | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

...this by themselves, and women are quite lucky to hook them. Ordinary women must not only defend these men against feminism, but also demand that all other men accept the lifelong nature of marriage. If not, one-half of all women who marry see their "greatest fear" come true. If so, they can have their "deepest hopes" fulfilled...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: Promises and Covenants | 10/3/1997 | See Source »

...President has a well-known talent for saying just the thing that will hook whatever individual he is talking to at the moment. No one knows this better than JOHN TRAVOLTA, who plays the character based on Clinton in the upcoming film version of Primary Colors. In a conversation with TIME, Travolta described what happened when he met his real-life counterpart at the volunteerism summit in Philadelphia last April. "I hadn't felt the exact seduction everyone says they feel when they're around him, and I wondered when it was coming," Travolta recalled. "Then he said he wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: FOR BILL, ANOTHER SATISFIED CUSTOMER | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

Dodi made his professional mark as a Hollywood producer. The films he helped finance included the Oscar-winning Chariots of Fire, The World According to Garp and Hook. But for all his notoriety in the movie business, Dodi was unable to alter the fact that he would always be best known, in the lingo of Fleet Street, as "the playboy" from "the House of Harrods." His only marriage, to former model Suzanne Gregard, ended after eight months in 1987. In the past decade he had been linked romantically, if usually briefly, to a lengthy list of beautiful and often famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRINCESS DIANA, 1961-1997: DODI AL FAYED: DIANA'S UNLIKELY SUITOR | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

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