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...bravado consists in allowing chance to work its will on him, at first believes he will enjoy feeling stranger in a strange land. North Africa, he thinks, will offer escape into adventure, exotic peril, the seductions of oblivion. He is wrong. The desert demands his surrender. The sand is quicksand; it will swallow him whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tragedy Is Their Destination | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...once again, our "popularly elected" UC has abandoned the strategic moral highground and is launching its assault from the quicksand of incompetence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The UC and Shad Hall | 2/24/1990 | See Source »

...even as wars go, would seem to be nearly untouchable. Not only was there too much R-rated action (drug abuse, massacres of civilians) but the story had an unhappy ending. Such recent movies as Platoon and Full Metal Jacket could immerse their audience in the muck and moral quicksand for a couple of hours and then let go. But TV series must keep viewers coming back week after week, adhering to standards of "family entertainment" along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: War As Family Entertainment | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

...with the borrowing binge required to finance the budget and trade deficits, produced the economic expansion now in its seventh year. Today, with unemployment at a 14-year low of 5.3% and inflation at a tolerable 4.4%, Reagan has a shield against charges that his economic accomplishments rest on quicksand. When asked about the intractable pathology of the underclass, he sometimes replies, accurately but irrelevantly, that the newspapers are full of help-wanted ads. That a booming economy cannot match the chronically unemployed with available jobs is an irony Reagan chooses to ignore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Home a Winner: Ronald Reagan | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

...first got here, I wouldn't talk with anyone," says Ted Stoddard, a tall, slender man with a serious mien and a gift for apricot trees. He is serving a life sentence for murder in Muskegon, Mich. "Prison has a tendency to make you angry. It's like quicksand. Your rights can be jerked at any time." But the garden provides him with a rare escape. He now teaches other inmates, though carefully, hesitantly. They will learn more through their mistakes, he finds, than from anything he tells them. "I order the seeds, and they can take what they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paradise Found: America Returns to the Garden | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

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