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...realistic set, a good supporting cast complete with a couch potato who times his life by reruns of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, waiters with ponytails and exotic accents, a lost dog and two grieving families. Still, persuading a juror who doubts that O.J. Simpson could be a monster capable of buying a 15- in. stiletto (requesting that it be extra sharp) and then plunging it into the bodies of two people will be harder than convincing the public that Donna Reed could preside over the machinations at South Fork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Eye: One Life to Live | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

...second point of consensus is that historically the welfare system has rewarded everything it ought to prevent and punished everything it ought to promote. "The Federal Government has created a monster," says Ann Clark, a welfare case manager in Colorado Springs, Colorado. "I'm dealing with third- generation recipients. Welfare has become their way of life. It scares them to death to try to get off it." The idea is not that the government get into the business of deciding who should have children; rather it is to get the government out of such decisions, by removing all the perverse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welfare Reform: The Vicious Cycle | 6/20/1994 | See Source »

SCIENCE: The Monster Swallowing a Galaxy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

Metcalf is even more startling in her other role as Oswald's ranting, self- justifying mother Marguerite. Although she created a monster, she blames everyone else; in this through-the-looking-glass world, she may have a case. Rick Snyder's Jack Ruby is a guileless goof, jitterbugging with nervous / vacuity, forever asking the strippers at his nightclub if he is effeminate. A Mob intermediary tells him he will be a hero if he kills Oswald. He is, instead, another dupe. Malkovich rightly considers this an unfinished work. It is full of intriguing moments, but it is more confusing than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: A Comedic Lee Harvey Oswald | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

...five minutes. But Gacy would take 18 minutes to die. A clog developed in the delivery tube attached to his arm. Gacy snorted just before death-chamber attendants pulled a curtain around him as they struggled to clear a tube. Finally, the two lethal drugs streamed into him. The monster was dead. But was the killing itself monstrous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Twist Before Dying | 5/23/1994 | See Source »

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