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Mark Wills was obsessed with beautiful bodies -- flesh or metal or his own. By daylight, Wills, 28, worshipped his massive 6-ft. 1-in., 270-lb. frame in the mirrors of the weight-lifting center he owned in lower Bucks County, Pennsylvania. By night, he muscled his way off dance floors and into the beds of attractive women whose names, he bragged, he rarely remembered. But Wills' true talents lay elsewhere. Once each week he would get his hands on hard bodies that never played hard-to-get -- curvaceous Camaros, sleek Cadillacs, majestic Monte Carlos -- gleaming beauties that he could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Car Thief At Large | 8/16/1993 | See Source »

...crested in the mid-'80s, according to, among other surveys, the CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. No wonder there is revolt in the air. "The god Narcissus ruled in the '80s," says a middle-aged publicist in Los Angeles, a man who is sensitive about his 15-lb. , gain and would prefer to keep his name to himself. "He was the least powerful and most uninteresting god. In the '90s Narcissus will be dethroned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Couch Potatoes, Arise! | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

...into the path of the Ann Brita. A few minutes and a well-placed harpoon later, the minke's destiny abruptly changed course. Instead of reaching the Arctic, she ended up on an auction block in the Norwegian port of Svolvaer, sold to the highest bidder for $2.50 a lb. This minke was the first of 160 hauled in by Norway this season for commercial sale. Each of these catches violated the worldwide ban on for-profit hunting established by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in 1986. (More than 130 others were hunted legally for scientific purposes, although many environmentalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hunt, the Furor | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...have gone wild for Willy, the story of two 12-year-olds separated from their folks. Jesse (Jason James Richter) is a troubled boy who, while cleaning up the graffiti scrawled on the walls of a seaquarium theme park in the Pacific Northwest, bonds mystically with a 7,000-lb., 22-ft.-long killer whale named Willy. Aided by his foster parents and two sympathetic adults at the park, the sweet boy makes it his mission to free the sweet beast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prince Of Whales | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

...that Oval Office rendezvous, Clinton was still weaving cosmic dreams for a summer of revived leadership. "I would love to get this bill out by the Tokyo economic summit," which begins July 7, he told the small group before him. "I'd go to the meeting like a 400-lb. gorilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Professor and the 400-Lb. Gorilla | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

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