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The results may have primarily reflected the sway of personality politics, a phenomenon familiar to Americans but less known to Britons. Right up to the photo finish, the gentlemanly, mild-mannered Major bested Labour leader Neil Kinnock in popularity polls by 10 points. Although Kinnock delivered a slick performance that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: By A Nose | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

To much of Europe, modern Germany resembles a child of doubtful lineage adopted as an infant into a loving family: the child has been good, obedient and industrious, but friends and neighbors are worried that evil genes may still lurk beneath a well-mannered surface -- all the more so now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe The New Germany Flexes Its Muscles | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

Right from the start, Voulkos -- the father figure of California pottery at the time and for decades thereafter -- inspired Price to break the rules, and the most binding of these was the integrity of the glaze: all color on a ceramic object had to come either from the clay itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Faberge of Funk | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

Why does a beautiful woman carry a gun in FINAL ANALYSIS? Because "there are a lot of lunatics out there!" At least three of them are at large in this steamy Hitchcock knockoff -- mostly from Vertigo. A psychiatrist (Richard Gere, with his famous hair and casual sexual authority) blunders into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Mar. 9, 1992 | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

Loyalty has paid off for Green, who will move into his new offices in Massachusetts Hall on July 1. Those who encounter the new provost there can expect to meet with a short. Mild-mannered, partly bald Jewish man whose voice still carries remnants of a New York accent.

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Green Has Quietly Earned Respect | 3/6/1992 | See Source »

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