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...this moment our star is in a plane over New York City. He needs to reach his main witness (Williams) before some malevolent brutes erase her identity by wiping her out. Figuring that the shortest distance between two points is straight down, Arnold throws a parachute out the plane door, jumps after it, flies like Superman to catch up with it, then dodges the plane as it circles back to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ARNOLD, BACK TO BASICS | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

...judge by Ants on the Melon, Adair is a natural miniaturist. The longest verse in the collection is 52 lines, the shortest a mere seven. The poemlets are as richly terse as haiku, while themes in the longer ones reverberate like novels in cameo. Her images are tellingly precise, surprising. In "Mojave Evening," coyotes gather "And not far enough to mean fear/ only decorum/ the periscope ears of three/ no five rabbits. Waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: ELEGANT FIZZ BY A POETS' POET | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

...apply Mathews' theory, Dole triumphed in the primaries because he was the tallest man in the race. Dick Lugar was the shortest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TALL AND SHORT OF IT | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

...November, he pleaded his case succinctly in a letter to the Court which said in part: "First. The time of the year is unseasonable, being now very near the shortest day, and the depth of winter.... Third. The place from which I go, hath fire, fuel, and all provisions for man and beast, laid in for the winter." Mr. Dunster obviously knew whereof he spoke (and shivered), and the Court luckily granted him a reprieve for the winter from the cold New England wilderness...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Dreadful, Lovely Winter | 12/15/1995 | See Source »

Before the words left his mouth, students were running out the door, strategically trying out an assortment of different exit patterns to ensure the shortest route to Emerson. Moments later, all the seats were filled in the new room, and many students were left standing. A request for yet another room has not been answered...

Author: By Corinne E. Funk, | Title: A Better Shopping Period | 9/26/1995 | See Source »

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