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...sound, before a blaring synthesizer, sounding almost like a police siren, kicks in. New Test Leper finds the band in a gentler mood. It's a soothing, meditative song that's tunefully and tastefully sweetened by a mandolin. A big rock number, Undertow, is an expansive and expressive crowd pleaser that the band played on its last concert tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: NEW ADVENTURES IN HI-FI | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...call for a citizen legislature in Washington that would meet only six months a year became a lot less attractive to the G.O.P. rank and file after they swept into power in 1994. His demand on the stump to "cut their pay and send them home" remains a crowd pleaser. But congressional experts are worried that for government to function during the "off season," the President's power to commit troops and spend money would become enhanced far beyond the checks and balances the Constitution envisions. These uncharted waters seem a high price to pay for reforms that stand little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: WHERE'S THE BEEF? | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

...hoping that Petty will whiz right into the job and help other G.O.P. candidates speed past Democrats into other top posts. Petty, who successfully underwent surgery for prostate cancer in 1995, is the founder of a conservative pac, a former Randolph County commissioner and a regular G.O.P. crowd pleaser. He intends to maintain his commercial plugs while running for the state office. Are Democrats properly geared up? Their starting position consists of a six-way primary contest among four women, a lawyer-lobbyist and a prizewinning eater who once downed 38 eggs in 29 seconds. A state Democratic senator offers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook, Feb. 19, 1996 | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

...Streetcar Named Desire is watchable and a definite crowd pleaser, which may be all that matters for such a classic. But one wishes that some of the obvious effort and care attached to this production had been extended towards interpreting such a vibrant script in a more thought provoking fashion...

Author: By Sorelle B. Braun, | Title: Streetcar Arrives In Familiar Form | 5/4/1995 | See Source »

Hollywood went seismic over the news. The town regards Katzenberg as the most demanding boss and the keenest people pleaser in the business. People wondered why Eisner, if he didn't want Katzenberg to run Disney's business side as Wells had, didn't simply redefine the job and take the younger man on as a junior partner -- instead of what he will surely become, a ferocious competitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's a Small World After All | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

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