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Owen, of course, jumps at the chance to get out of his routine, even though his only previous experience of sailing alone was a five-day journey from West Palm Beach, Fla., to New Bern, N.C., during which he fell prey to hallucinations. Anne, at first, thinks the whole idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Wanted More | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

When times get tough, the questions facing environmentalists get even tougher. And these days, economic anxieties and shifting political winds are threatening to produce a green-out effect that could make tree huggers feel as endangered as the California condor. Epochal events such as the gulf war and the collapse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gunning for The Greens | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

On The Simpsons, Itchy and Scratchy are a sadomasochistic mouse-and-cat team that enacts scenes of baroque violence in a running parody of kiddie cartoon shows. On CAPITOL CRITTERS, cats really do chase mice -- and the trouble is, it's no parody. The new animated series from Steven Bochco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mr. Mouse Goes to Washington | 1/27/1992 | See Source »

Once or twice a decade, the geek visionaries at Industrial Light & Magic concoct a special effect that wows even jaded, high-tech-savvy audiences. The latest is morphing, as in metamorphosis, a technique that reduces a film image to a numerical code that a computer can manipulate almost endlessly. One...

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

If confirmed, Franklin will bring a power-packed resume to the position. The Harvard M.B.A. served as a headhunter in the Nixon Administration, a vice chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission from 1973 to '79, and is a director of seven corporations, among them Aetna, Dow Chemical and Westinghouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cabinet . . . And Barbara Makes Three | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

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