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...changing oil in their cars while paying 90% of the price of a valve job. "The attitude was the faster it crumbles, the faster we'll get brand-new," says New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a stalwart highway watcher. Moreover, maintenance is unglamorous. "Nobody ever had a ribbon-cutting ceremony for fixing cracks," notes Moynihan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why America Has So Many Potholes | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

Frida Kahlo: A Ribbon Around aBomb--March 13-18, 7:10 and 8:25 p.m. Saturdayand Sunday matinee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Everywhere But Harvard | 3/12/1992 | See Source »

...system operators to lower monthly fees, whether for Disney alone or as part of a package with other pay services. In either case Disney reduces its own fee. The channel freely capitalizes on the promotional value of the Disney name by sending classic cartoon characters to malls, parades and ribbon-cutting ceremonies. Says Christopher Dixon, a media analyst for Paine Webber: "Disney has a very clear franchise, and they promote it extensively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cable TV: Exploiting The Franchise | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

...result, the image hovers strangely between the inorganic, mineral fixity of stone and the fluid life of paint. The banner on its pole outside the tent and the whipping linear rhythms of Judith's head ribbon seem blown by an actual wind. And the undercurrent of strangeness is increased by the way Mantegna reduces Holofernes to two anatomical fragments: his head, which the avenging Jewess is placing in a bag, and the sole of his foot, which sticks up above the horizon of the bed end. Mantegna had a liking for feet -- the same dead soles confront your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Genius Obsessed By Stone | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

Maybe the best army recruiting ad since John Wayne's farewell to his troops in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. In explaining before a rapt press corps how the gulf war was won, the general embodied a nation's ideal of the perfect warrior: tough, professional, charismatic, compassionate. And gave a great lesson in military tactics in the process. Now if we could just figure out what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991:Television | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

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