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...never ever the first initial H.) Is he simply what he purports to be: the ultimate straight arrow, the billionaire who never lusted after money, a self-effacing idealist uncontaminated by personal ambition, a brilliant problem solver who never ducked a challenge and a patriotic outsider untouched by the muck of political horse trading? Or is there, as critics claim, a darker side to Perot: thin-skinned, self-righteous, unwilling to compromise and potentially authoritarian? Does Perot, in short, have the right stuff to be President at a time of domestic upheaval, economic unease and global uncertainty? Or does Perot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He's Ready, But Is America ready for PRESIDENT PEROT? | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

That is the first thing that the exhibition "Rembrandt: The Master & His Workshop: Paintings," now in its closing week at London's National Gallery, makes clear. Rembrandt was not a "literary" painter, as his intense devotion to the muck and glow and substance of paint attests. But he was an incomparably theatrical one. In his work, the idea of a figure painting as tableau is exchanged for that of outright drama: deep, dark backgrounds and narrative light picking out the hierarchy of character; turbulent crowd scenes; an eye for all classes, from cobblers to kings; a vast range of expression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Really Rembrandt? | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

...Tina distributed the ball very well," Caples said. "They played steady and hung tough under some pressure at the end. Overall, it was a decent game despite the muck...

Author: By Joanne Nelson, | Title: Victory and Bit of Luck Earn Stickwomen Part of Ivy Title | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

...ISRAELITES HAD to cross the Red Sea. Columbus had to sail the ocean blue. And I, much less glamorously, have to muck my way through Lake Stoughton every time I take a shower...

Author: By Jonathan A. Bresman, | Title: A Delicate Ecosystem | 10/22/1991 | See Source »

...minutes, he reaches the Cessna 441. Its props are still turning, but the pilot has fled into the dense, swampy undergrowth. Dressed for the office in a suit and loafers, Kennedy pulls a Walther PPK from his ankle holster and gamely wades in, immediately losing a shoe to the muck. Reinforcements soon join him, and the search goes on for hours. Though the pilot manages to evade them, Kennedy and his colleagues seize nearly a ton of cocaine from the abandoned plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War on Drugs: Day of Reckoning | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

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