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...only that, you'll have the cleanest credit record in town. "How's his payment history?" one computer may ask another. "He pays early!" the other may flash back. "Aw, c'mon," the first computer will say. "No, really! Here -- look!" Whereupon the first computer will look over the second computer's shoulder and sniff its perfume, and airline reservations clerks around the country will frown and say, "Sorry, my system just went down." All because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: Amount Due? Zero, Thanks! | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

Chicago at Detroit, Mon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCOREBOARD | 5/24/1991 | See Source »

Chicago at Detroit, Mon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCOREBOARD | 5/22/1991 | See Source »

...Five, four, three, two, one. Let's go!" shouts slot-host Eileen Kasunich as the buzzer sounds. "C'mon, Ken. Bring out those sevens. Exercise those fingers." Slotters square off with their machines, tensing their facial muscles as they urgently press buttons and pull handles. "Everyone acts like he is about to be run over by a truck," observes writer Barbara Griffing of New York City. "You sense that the whole world is going to cave in if they don't get those points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atlantic City, New Jersey Chasing the Super Red Sevens | 5/6/1991 | See Source »

...ante on his own anarchic instincts. To call him a bear of a man is to give bears too much credit; they have not his strut, his growl, his formidable charisma. It is said that when French bears see a particularly imposing member of their species, they exclaim, "Ah, mon Dieu! Un Depardieu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life in A Big Glass | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

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