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Hits: Aladdin (the only animated offering in the pack, grabbing $114 million), A Few Good Men (Tom Cruise=$55 million), The Bodyguard (Kevin Costner=$88 million, despite intense critical pummeling) and Home Alone 2, the failure-proof sequel that has rung up $146 million, already placing it in the top three of 1992's big earners, along with Batman Returns and Lethal Weapon 3 -- also sequels that offered more of the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Same Old Stars | 1/18/1993 | See Source »

...George Bush needs a new job soon, he might try peddling hardware. He has already rung up one sale worth perhaps $4 billion. Responding to a letter from the President to the Emir, the Kuwaitis decided to buy 236 U.S.-built Abrams tanks instead of British Challengers. Granted, the circumstances were special. After Desert Storm, perhaps no nation is more anxious to retain American goodwill than Kuwait. And few gestures would win more presidential gratitude than a contract just before the election that will preserve 5,900 jobs in the vote-rich states of Michigan and Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tanks a Lot | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

...School for refusing to end a two--year leave of absence which he took to protest the lack of a woman of color on the faculty, spoke at the Inn at Harvard last week, answering questions about his reasoning that poor whites want to keep Blacks on the last rung...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, | Title: Former Harvard Law School Professor Sheds Light on the Bottom of the Well | 10/8/1992 | See Source »

Fish sees this weekend's invitational as the first rung on a season-long ladder...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: M. Tennis Begins Anew Today at Yale | 9/25/1992 | See Source »

...like a badge. The plot of Raising Cain -- about a child psychologist (John Lithgow) still under the spell of his mad-scientist father and an evil twin named Cain -- swipes from Psycho and Michael Powell's sicko classic Peeping Tom. What's fun here is that De Palma has rung cunning changes on Hitchcockian twists. What if the car that Norman Bates watched sink into the swamp had a woman inside, clawing to save her life? What if abnormal Norman were to be questioned by the shrink who has decoded his warped family life? And what if Norman were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twin Piques | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

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