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...weeks later, Keene and Maes returned to New Mexico 30 pounds lighter and hundreds of dollars poorer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not What They Bargained For | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

These five happy-go-lucky musicians offered a lighter, happier alternative to the melodrama of Guns N' Roses and unapologetic experimentalism of bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Faith No More. On their EP, As Ugly As They Wanna Be, UKJ never got deeper than the tragic teenage problems of parents and parties...

Author: By Rita L. Berardino, | Title: Did Someone Say Red Hot Chili Peppers? | 10/1/1992 | See Source »

...muscle disorder, and has been spotted with a cigarette in one hand and an asthma inhaler in the other. "One," he bellows into the telephone, then hangs up. His secretary appears bearing a single cigarette from a pack imprisoned in her desk, which he lights with a silver lighter. He claims to have cut from three packs a day to less than half a pack; in the next 90 minutes he smokes three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comfortable In His Own Ample Skin: LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

...gave me. But it's not an authorized biography, and indeed it's quite critical in places." This fall TIME reporter David Seideman will examine the spotted-owl environmental controversy in his | forthcoming book Showdown at Opal Creek. Not all TIME authors compose weighty public-policy tomes. On a lighter note, senior writer William A. Henry III recently published The Great One: The Life and Legend of Jackie Gleason. And away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From The Publisher: Aug. 24, 1992 | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

...breakbone fever. Whatever it is, the final day's march is sheer hell. As at the beginning of the trip, darkness falls when we are still several kilometers from Bomassa, and we walk the last stretch by failing flashlights. At 9 p.m. I stumble, exhausted, aching and 14 lbs. lighter, into the base camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Eden: a remote African rain forest | 7/13/1992 | See Source »

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