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William Parish is bullish on energy -- literally. Ten months ago, the former California real estate lawyer opened the first commercial plant designed to produce electricity by burning cattle dung. Situated near El Centro, Calif., the Mesquite Lake Resource Recovery Project generates 17.5 MW per hr. -- enough to power 15,000 homes -- and sells most of it under a 30-year contract to Southern California Edison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENERGY: Cow-Chip Power? No Bull | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...Tommie Agee (26 HR...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: The 1989 Sports Cube Baseball Trivia Quiz | 3/22/1989 | See Source »

...Home at last. Elapsed shopping time: 3 hr. 10 min. Total cost of purchases: $9.42. I never did find sugar. But that's not unusual. What impresses one is the constant struggle the Soviets must go through every day to buy those things that so many Westerners take for granted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Shopper's Day | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...SINGING DETECTIVE Dennis Potter's BBC serial, about a writer lacerated by memory and liberated by fantasy, was an instant cult classic on TV. Now it has barreled onto the big screen -- all 6 hr. 42 min. of singing, dancing, dazzling talking. In either format, a bloody masterpiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Best of '88: Cinema | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...Potter celebration reaches its climax: The Singing Detective, his 1986 masterpiece about a hospitalized writer, has begun a six-week run in Manhattan's Public Theater movie house. When this 6-hr. 42-min. serial was broadcast on PBS earlier this year, it attracted a rabid cult following, and New York Times film critic Vincent Canby called it "one of the wittiest, wordiest, singingest-dancingest, most ambitious, freshest, most serious, least solemn movies of the year." Now Detective, handsomely directed by Jon Amiel, is on the big screen where it belongs -- and where it looks marvelous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Notes From The Singing Detective | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

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