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Certainly not McCain's fellow Republicans, who were finding their addiction to tobacco money difficult to give up. Instead, they created the illusion of action by spreading the many components of the settlement among various committees--much as kids spread lima beans around their plates to create the illusion of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain's Big Deal | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

From black-and-white, Close moved to color, but again in a system-dominated way. Color printing is done with three colors: cyan (a greenish blue), magenta (a purplish red) and yellow. Close took his photo, had color separations made, and then proceeded to render each square of the canvas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Close Encounters | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

At what point does an array of colored squares in a regular grid begin to turn into a recognizable image? The question touches on the mystery of Realist painting--how it is, for instance, that when looking close up at a Velasquez you see a flurry of gray-and-pink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Close Encounters | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

"Illusion never changed/Into something real," she sings on Torn, lamenting a relationship in which she felt used. It's a caution she might do well to take to heart. For if Imbruglia ever hopes to be viewed as more than a producer's puppet, she'll have to break free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Angst with Sugar on It | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

It seems grotesque to think of the Jonesboro slaughter in terms of play. But that is a way to approach the otherwise mystifying spectacle of children gunning down children. First of all, play is not necessarily innocent. Nor is childhood. The innocence of children (which was the unspoken premise of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tragedy as Child's Play | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

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