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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...studied at Harvard summer school, washed dishes at a Howard Johnson's in Boston, and became engaged (briefly) to a girl from South Carolina who had a white Cadillac convertible and called him "honey chile." He retains a strong affection for America and is in fact an American junk-food addict. "When you're in the U.S. with Chirac," says Foreign Minister Alain Juppa, "there's always a problem: as soon as he sees a fast-food place, he has to stop the car, rush up to the counter and order a hamburger." (Chirac does have a more sophisticated side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAN OF THE HOUR, AT LAST | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

...first problem is that they are tan. Tan is the color of boredom. It is the color of dry dirt. It is the color of the junk you dig out of your eyes in the morning. There is nothing interesting of significant about the color tan. Note the vowelrhyme with 'Bland...

Author: By Sarah M. Rose, | Title: Bland Man with the Tan Pants | 5/10/1995 | See Source »

Rogers said in 1983: "They're not going to get my money to see the junk that's made today." While there are many worthwhile modern movies, she did have a point. So much of what passes before us in previews and feature films in junk--we often watch for lack of something better to do. But there's simply no way to be unhappy when you're watching a dance sequence like "Cheek to Cheek;" that's in contrast to many modern movies, whose whole purpose seems to be to point out the horrors of the world in which...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Grace Never Dies | 4/28/1995 | See Source »

...they badly aimed populism? The answer is not deeply buried: corporate America, generous with PAC contributions, is the clear and highly appreciative beneficiary. One spitball of a bill, written for Republican Congressman Slade Gorton of Washington by lawyers for logging, mining, grazing and utility corporations, would junk large sections of the Endangered Species Act. Gorton told the New York Times that he did not consult environmentalists about the bill because "I already know what their views...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARTH DAY BLUES | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

...federal judge granted a permanent injunction against logging Owl Creek. He rejected a claim that this was a "taking" for which the Constitution requires payment. That didn't stop what became a classic angry standoff in 1986, when Charles Hurwitz, a Houston financier, bought Pacific Lumber largely with junk bonds and cranked up the chopping down of redwoods to pay off his debt. Three days after the Owl Creek decision, Pacific Lumber announced plans to log the redwoods of the 3,000-acre Headwaters Forest, another murrelet nesting place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARTH DAY BLUES | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

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