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The effect is to foster attitudes of casualness toward violence and brutality not just in entertainment but in everyday life. People are not as uncomfortable as they ought to be about the glamorization of human hurt. The ability to react instinctively to suffering seems to be atrophying. Youngsters sit transfixed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Decline of Neatness | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

"Now why is there such a lull in boats going by?" puzzled one tourist in a bright red ski jacket aloud to his companion, munching on a hunk of Italian sausage. Indeed, very few observers care about who wins or who loses. Very few seem to know that the regatta...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: The Head of the Charles | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

The ship glides along at 13 m.p.h. during the day and ties up at night, so that passengers may eat and sleep in peace without missing any of the scenery. Guests are well advised to pack carefully: shoes with nonslip soles, much film, a copy of Madame Bovary, binoculars and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Cruisin' Up the River | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

The best kind of bright early summer's day spoiled by the worst kind of dark imaginings: Is it possible that in this season, otherwise so full of innocent promise, Hollywood executives banish all thought of us as audience -- discerning, judicious, culturally literate? Does the solstice induce in them some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Time for The Ants to Revolt? | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

Seeds of this disaster were sown in the frozen earth of Iowa. Just before midnight on the night of the caucuses, after he barely scraped by in third place, Dukakis sat in his hotel suite munching on cold cuts. Most staffers had repaired to the crowded bar, leaving only a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anatomy of A Disaster | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

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