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...terrible deliberation of each step that spells out their appalling tiredness. Their faces are black and unshaven. They are young men, but the grime and whiskers and exhaustion make them look middle-aged . . . All afternoon men keep coming round the hill and vanishing eventually over the horizon. It is one long tired line of antlike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worm's Eye Ernie's War | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...hasn't had a Top Ten single, and he plays rock clubs as well as country venues. But his voice has offhand brute force when it has to bear down and unforced gentleness when it comes to business of the heart. He sings about familiar territory -- small towns and horizon-piercing interstates, luckless marriages and faithless love, dumb faith and poor prospects -- and blows all the cobwebs away because his eye is fresh and because he appears to be the very guy he's singing about, a Lone Star Everyman with a "two-pack habit and a motel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steve Earle: The Color of Country | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...screen, a short film showed an oversize golden sun hanging on the horizon while glistening waves caressed a deserted beach. Another depicted a beach chair dragging itself across the sand, dipping an aluminum toe in the water and timidly scampering away. Still another presented two Luxo desk lamps playing a friendly game of catch, stretching their springy arms and butting a rubber ball with their warm, cone-shaped heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: The Love of Two Desk Lamps | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...within a few weeks of rolling out of Denver. Is it worth it? To paraphrase J.P. Sr.: If you have to ask, it's not. "You have a sense of travel in a train car," says Bauman. "In a yacht, what can you do? Go out to the horizon and turn around and come back. Here you can see America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Rolling Along on the Rails | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...talking about children and ponies on the rise of the hill, going nowhere and everywhere, beckoned by cumulus crags and a horizon forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Cries of the Heart | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

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