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...middle of America one summer weekend (to be precise, at a motel at the intersection of Interstate 75 and Buttermilk Pike, in Fort Mitchell, Ky., just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati), there was a gathering of about 300 people who can talk without moving their lips (reading, that is another matter). Ventriloquists all, they brought their dummies. There were people everywhere not so much talking to other people as talking through their dummies to other people's dummies (just leave it alone, folks, and lower that eyebrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Kentucky: 600 Unmoved Lips | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...dummy in the motel corridor said to another. "I'm Oscar from Cape Cod. Where are you from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Kentucky: 600 Unmoved Lips | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...horizon-piercing interstates, luckless marriages and faithless love, dumb faith and poor prospects -- and blows all the cobwebs away because his eye is fresh and because he appears to be the very guy he's singing about, a Lone Star Everyman with a "two-pack habit and a motel tan." An old-fashioned engine, maybe, but built for speed and just the thing to get country music back on the track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steve Earle: The Color of Country | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...world into a monkey house; a vagrant with a mass of knotted material seems to be playing with nothing less than DNA; a palace is built to entice Satan up from hell; hands rebel against the minds that move them; the dead and the living couple in a Texas motel. Each story involves an uncanny mix of eroticism and terror; each is an instance of headlong narrative. Barker, already celebrated in Britain, is about to surface in the U.S. with demonic force. The world may be ready for a combination of playwright, illustrator, film director and writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Aug. 4, 1986 | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

...about four Asians went to a high school dance at the convention center, thinking it was open to the public. The police came and sent them away. A few nights later a group of teenagers headed over to the Asians' motel, and a scuffle broke out. Dan Phi Vo, 31, was arrested for allegedly attempting to stab a local boy, jailed for two days, duly sentenced and fined $200. To the sheriff, the Asians had tried to "infiltrate" a high school dance and "mess with our kids." To Le and his UXB colleagues, Vo was a victim of small-town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scraphogs Invade Hawthorne | 6/30/1986 | See Source »

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