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...parallels between Evelyn's dilemmas about her future and her lover are heavy-handed and trite, and the authors make Evelyn seem shallow and foolish. Her realization that she does not need a man's guidance attempts to save the play from sexism, but this epiphany still comes much too late...

Author: By Carol J. Margolis, | Title: This Play Remains at Crossroads | 4/11/1991 | See Source »

This chronology would also help explain the dawning of life on land, which occurred around the same time. The breakup of a supercontinent such as this one, scientists believe, would trigger massive flooding of the continents and the creation of shallow coastal waters -- exactly the kind of spawning ground from which sea creatures first emerged and adapted to life on the shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Antarctic Connection | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

...high into the air. Soot falls like gritty snowflakes, streaking windshields and staining clothes. From the overcast skies drips a greasy black rain, while sheets of gooey oil slap against a polluted shore. Burned-out hulks of twisted metal litter a landscape pockmarked by bomb craters, land mines and shallow graves scraped in the sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environmental Damage: A Man-Made Hell on Earth | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

...viewed as negative and preacherly at the time of its release. It was an angry album." Mitchell seems heartened by the warm, early interest accorded the new record, and a little suspicious, as if she has produced something so attractive that it must be superficial. "It's not shallow," she says. "But it's not making you look at hard facts as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Navigator of the Deep | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

...previous month and 5.3% in June. All told, 7.7 million Americans were unemployed in January. % "The job loss last month was immense," says Allen Sinai, chief economist for the Boston Co. Economic Advisors. "The findings really blow out of the sky any notion of a short and shallow recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Do They Go from Here? | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

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