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Judged purely by what director Walter Hill has put on the screen, Another 48 Hrs. is a movie mainly about the several pretty ways that glass shatters when bullets or bodies are propelled through it. It is also not insignificantly about boots. There are many elegant close-ups of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In Search of Eddie Murphy | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

Few people in power have had such a record of personal and professional competence and honor. Poindexter was first in his class at the Naval Academy, excelled at sea command and Pentagon maneuver, and reared five sons (four of whom are pursuing naval careers); his wife became an Episcopal minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: His Failure Was Political | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

"Don't look at anything but the bogey," Dooley's voice crackled in my helmet. "Keep your wings level with his; now come on back on the stick. Keep your eyes on him." I'm looking straight up through the canopy, my head back as far as it will go...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Walter Mitty Wins a Dogfight | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

Quayle starts from a conservative base but tries to keep the freedom to maneuver away from it. In 1976 he suggested that marijuana be decriminalized, a view too radical to be repeated before his constituents. Dan Coats, who now holds Quayle's Senate seat, is a born-again Christian who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DAN QUAYLE: Late Bloomer | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

Harvard will have to avoid mental mistakes and swim agressively to out-maneuver the faster Michigan squad. In a recent game, Michigan fell by a respectable 5-1 margin to Slippery Rock, the perennial polo powerhouse that finished third in the nation last season.

Author: By Jose A. Guerra, | Title: Showdown For Nationals: Harvard Versus Michigan | 4/21/1990 | See Source »

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