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...homes across the U.S. Rising before dawn, a lot of sleepy-eyed folks switched on their televisions to the Weather Channel, powered up their camcorders and recorded a minute of programming right off the screen. Then, with the camera still running, they went into their yards and videotaped the sky just as the star Aldebaran slipped behind the moon. Finally they came back inside, taped a bit more TV and went back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALLING ALL AMATEURS | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

...flat tax last year (for instance, House majority leader Dick Armey) are now advocating a change as complex as indexing capital gains for inflation (Armey again). That's also why the new tax bill is being stuffed with special breaks for everyone from whaling captains to sky divers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BACK INTO THE TAX MAZE | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

...time. It will enable us to eliminate world illness and suffering instantly and to make society so productive that everyone will enjoy peace and prosperity. On Wall Street the bottom falls out. The Pentium chip might as well be a buggy whip; Windows 98 a manual typewriter. As sky-high tech stocks become worthless, everything follows, and from the elite on Wall Street to the masses in mutual funds, they begin to think maybe, just maybe, they ought not take the deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRASH CASE | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

...Martian air force will now undoubtedly claim that Pathfinder is a weather balloon it intentionally dropped from the sky." KEN LEVIN Novato, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 4, 1997 | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

...actress must try, hundreds of times, to say the word oui correctly; the accountant refuses to sign any more checks. At the end of the war, and the end of the century, are we near the end of our rope? One man thinks so. "When I look at the sky," he says, "I only see what has disappeared." This could be Godard, musing on an art form near exhaustion. Yet he gives the lie to this cynicism in scene after scene of dark beauty. Could he be not the Picasso of cinema but its Mozart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: FOR EVER GODARD | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

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