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...ground? Fifty years before Maverick and Goose, Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy dared the clouds in Test Pilot (1938), a paean to the thrills, thralls and tragedies of dancing with that blue-clad lady (more of the last, apparently, when in a military aircraft). Just ask weak-kneed Myrna Loy when her man goes plummeting. It was MGM's biggest hit, and you get Lionel Barrymore thrown in. And remember: they died at their trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying Couch Potato: Trouble Aloft | 9/19/1997 | See Source »

...work is never done. Or so it seems in the September issue of George, in which JOHN F. KENNEDY JR. goes to great lengths to boost his magazine's circulation. To complement the cover photo of a nude Kate Moss as Eve, Kennedy sits bare-chested and bare-kneed in dark shadow, gazing pensively at an apple. In the editor's letter, he ruminates on the nature of temptation--"I'm playing Hamlet with my willpower (Should I or shouldn't I?)." The literary reference must suffice to convey his torment because he coyly declines to reveal the snakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 25, 1997 | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

...Major, Labour leader Tony Blair promises to be tough on crime, inflation and government spending, while pledging to hold the line on curbs introduced by the Conservatives to limit union power. Unlike the Prime Minister, he is not plagued by a popular image that depicts him as a weak-kneed, befuddled leader whose ideas are nothing more than stale leftovers from the Thatcher era. On the "progressive" front, Blair's party pledges to abolish the voting powers of the hereditary aristocrats who sit in the House of Lords, the upper chamber of parliament. The six-week campaign is scheduled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Major Calls for a Vote | 3/18/1997 | See Source »

...Major, Labour leader Tony Blair promises to be tough on crime, inflation and government spending, while pledging to hold the line on curbs introduced by the Conservatives to limit union power. Unlike the Prime Minister, he is not plagued by a popular image that depicts him as a weak-kneed, befuddled leader whose ideas are nothing more than stale leftovers from the Thatcher era. On the "progressive" front, Blair's party pledges to abolish the voting powers of the hereditary aristocrats who sit in the House of Lords, the upper chamber of parliament. The six-week campaign is scheduled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Major Calls for a Vote | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

According to Santiago, the male struck the female student in the head and then kneed her in the chest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Student Assaulted in Thayer | 8/6/1996 | See Source »

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