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...with a fetish: if anyone touches his hat, he will shoot him. Not that he really requires an excuse to ventilate any and all comers. It is just that this is what the man does when he's not repairing to an opium den and losing himself in bad pipe dreams. Or drinking too much. Or resisting the advances of Calamity Jane (Ellen Barkin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: OUT WEST ON A BAD STAR TRIP | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

...another point in the transcript, Wigand alleged that the company introduced into its cigarettes--at "a hundredfold the safety level"--a pipe-tobacco additive, coumarin, that it knew caused liver tumors in laboratory mice. And he described two threatening phone calls, one of which hinted at harm to his two children if he didn't "leave tobacco alone.'' B&W responded to the Daily News article by threatening legal action against CBS News for leaking it. A lawyer for the tobacco company warned that the network would be held responsible for any libel contained in the transcript...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: THE MYSTERY MAN WITH THE SMOKING GUN | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

That isn't to say memory compression itself is a pipe dream. On the contrary, the technology is real, and Syncronys is not the only company to have cashed in on its appeal. But neither of SoftRAM 95's top competitors--Connectix's RAM Doubler and Quarterdeck's MagnaRAM2--can boast sales approaching SoftRAM 95's 650,000 copies. And while some have complained about the speed of the other products, neither has been targeted for the kind of virulent attacks mounted against SoftRAM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A TRICK OF MEMORY? | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

...moron with a fetish: he'll shoot anyone who touches his hat. Not that he really requires an excuse to ventilate any and all comers. It is just that this is what the man does when he's not repairing to an opium den and losing himself in bad pipe dreams. Or drinking too much. Or resisting the advances of Calamity Jane (Ellen Barkin). "'Wild Bill' is one of the dankest and most claustrophobic westerns ever made," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "It's a movie that deliberately shuts itself off from the clean, redeeming beauty of prairie, mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES . . . WILD BILL | 11/24/1995 | See Source »

...INTERNET HAS BEEN SPRINGING more leaks than a rusty steam pipe lately, and nobody has been feeling the heat more than Netscape Communications. The Mountain View, California, start-up commands more than 70% of the market for software that enables networkers to "browse" the World Wide Web--the fast-growing multimedia portion of the Internet. Having promised it would make the Net safe for business--including home banking and online creditcard shopping--Netscape has become a fat target for anybody with the time or skill to prove that it hasn't achieved that goal. Just last month the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUGS BOUNTY | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

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