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...next 25 years the world was to grow fatally familiar with that sight: the forelock vibrating, the voice agitated, the stare fixed on destiny. Adolf ; Hitler seldom looked back; history was saturated with national and personal grievance. The future was what counted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architect Of Evil | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

...like Beetlejuice. He gets to deliver only a few amusing lines--notably in a scene with Vale and newspaper reporter Alexander Knox (Robert Wohl)--but he delivers them well. And Keaton has a beautifully expressive face; he's fun to watch when the script supports him. Sadly, however, it seldom does...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Comic Book Justice Strikes Again | 6/30/1989 | See Source »

...happily left the language, maybe it is not too impolite now to remember that the real George Gipp of Notre Dame was a low-life gambler who openly bet on his own football games and everything else from cards and craps to flies landing on sugar cubes. Gipp seldom attended class and only occasionally graced football practice. The sentimental writer Red Smith, a Notre Dame man himself, used to refer to the great dead hero as "the patron saint of eight-ball pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Did Pete Rose Do It? What Are the Odds? | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

California winemakers are rather like an extended family, in which fierce competition to concoct a better Chardonnay seldom intrudes on friendship. These days, however, a territorial dispute is pitting neighbor against neighbor. "I am thoroughly opposed to slicing up the Napa Valley," declares winemaker Joe Heitz. "It is asinine, stupid and ridiculous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Napa Valley's Gripes of Wrath | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

Friends, family members and even sometime adversaries agree that in presenting arguments, sounding out opponents or seeking compromise, Ocasio is seldom intimidated. And, they add, his integrity seems unimpeachable...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Holding On, Speaking Out, Moving Up | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

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