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...coins on the bark. But the tree flourishes near the top in an array of green fans that rise and fall like a queen's hand. All shades of green are displayed, many so subtle they have no names. Though I have looked at this tree for years, the sight of it always surprises me nicely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Not Observing Nature | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

WASHINGTON: As usual, Bill Clinton had read the polls: Americans tolerate him and hate his inquisitor; they want him focused on the job they hired him to carry out; and gosh, if Hillary can stand the sight of him, well, then they can too. So with narrowed eyes and emotions as constrained as a robot's, he gave the pollsters what they wanted. Did he satisfy his constituents? That won't be known for days, until the last sentence of his 4-minute-and-10-second monologue is gleaned and parsed; until the spin cycle concludes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So This Is the Truth | 8/18/1998 | See Source »

...advances to the floor and screams, "I'm a lesbian!" with such defiance that, as with most of the characters, you don't know if you want to hate or love her. The chemistry between the sparring couple is superb, and perhaps the best in the entire play. The sight of Popo's adoring eyes as he strums the same guitar chord over and over, with Katherina trying to glare him down, is alone worth the price of admission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slav-er-iffic! | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

...many people, the sight of a TV commercial is a prompt to either bolt to the kitchen for a quick bite or hit the remote for a quick escape. But last month Master Lock, a division of Fortune Brands based in Milwaukee, Wis., likely became the first national advertiser to run a one-second ad--snack-proof and zap-proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blink Of An Ad | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

...starving, it can take days or weeks to stagger to one of the dozen feeding centers run by international aid agencies. That is what thousands of stick-figured Sudanese are doing right now: trekking desperately in search of food, tottering, often falling into the dust to die, sometimes within sight of their goal. This time it is not only emaciated mothers with their hollow-cheeked children but skeletal men as well, not just in the war-ravaged south but also in the north. Across the pitiless expanse of Sudan, starvation threatens 2.6 million people, of whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sudan: In unholy synergy, drought and human folly are producing another shocking famine | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

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