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That it was left behind is appropriate, since this particular voyage was the very antithesis of Melville's great saga. For the first time in humankind's 5,000 years of seafaring, the prized whale lying on the deck wasn't a trophy of the hunt. Instead, the return of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aboard the Conifer: My, How You've Grown! | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

Some fellow psychology majors from Lewis and Clark have banded together--anonymously--to circulate a message of support: "Monica is the epitome of a true friend." A couple of Website fan clubs have also sprung up, but most of the Internet home pages that revolve around her name are sardonic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: MONICA LEWINSKY: The Days Of Her Life | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

None, of course. Unless you can find cold comfort in cold cash. Which is why a sardonic God invented negligence lawyers. Russell Banks, author of the novel from which Atom Egoyan derived The Sweet Hereafter, has, however, improved on His handiwork, creating in Mitchell Stephens (Ian Holm) a man who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SHORT TAKES: THE SWEET HEREAFTER | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

Lyrically, Tone Soul Evolution deals with the timeless topics of pop music: love, doubt, betrayal, hope--in other words, the usual. The only difference is that, as befits the '90s, the subjects of songs are often fairly ambiguous. "Seems So" details the story of an eerie night-time UFO-ish...

Author: By Josiah J. Madigan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Apples Joyfully Hop on Beatles Bandwagon | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

"These children can frighten you," says Rocky Morris, a fireman at Engine 16. He is interrupted by the crash of a vase thrown through a living-room window 16 stories above his head. As shards of glass rain onto the parking lot, Morris shoots a sardonic look toward a teenager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW A FEW FIREMEN CREATED A SAFE HAVEN | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

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