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But the new Dark Shadows is drained of blood well before Barnabas bares his fangs. The pace is funereal; the plot twists, pure gothic boiler plate. There's the fresh-faced governess who arrives at the mansion to tutor an eerily disturbed child; the slow-witted groundskeeper who is enslaved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Would It Fool the Family Cat? | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

To dramatize their plight, four Burmese hijacked a Thai Airways jetliner on Saturday and demanded the release of imprisoned dissidents. After diverting the Bangkok-to-Rangoon flight to Calcutta, the hijackers said they wanted to make the world "hear our pleas for justice and human rights." They surrendered peaceably to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma A People Under Siege | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

Since taking office, Salinas has worked hard to cement his personal popularity. He makes frequent helicopter trips, known as giras, outside Mexico City, to take the national pulse. Wherever he goes, he renders instant verdicts on pleas for sewers, electricity, roads, hospitals, and is known to follow through on his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carlos Salinas: The Man Behind the Mask | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

Republican Bob Packwood responded to pleas from the Oregon Winegrowers' Association to fight an 18 cents-per-bottle tax increase on wine. Packwood delivered: vineyards that produce less than 150,000 gal. a year will be exempt from the increase, and those that turn out up to 250,000 gal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Little Help for Some Friends | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

In fact, Bush's conversion did little to bring the talks out of their coma. Darman thought that the deal might be struck by August. But the Democrats continued to procrastinate, giving away little, particularly on social programs. The Democratic stall obscured the best-kept dirty secret of the budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dick Darman: Man in The Muddle | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

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