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...grim tale began around midnight on Tuesday, when villagers in the tiny Swiss farm community of Cheiry, 45 miles northeast of Geneva, saw the moonless sky lit by flames over the farmhouse of Albert Giacobino, a wealthy retired farmer who had bought the place four years ago. Firemen who arrived at the scene found Giacobino dead from a gunshot wound. Tacked to a door of the farmhouse was an audiocassette with a rambling taped discourse about earth, sky and astrological alignments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Reign of Fire | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

Warning: the author's empurpled introduction, which contains such glop as "Hope has become a bird's feather, glissading from the evening sky," is unrepresentative and should be ignored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Sketchbook | 10/10/1994 | See Source »

...problems and other external factors can exacerbate mental illness, most have long ago concluded that the underlying causes are often biological and genetic. None of the recovered patients in the NPR documentary blame family woes. In fact, the illness caught many without warning. "I was looking up at the sky, and suddenly it cracked like a mirror, in a thousand pieces," recalls Laura Young, 31. "I don't know why I didn't realize it was an incredibly strong signal that something was wrong with my mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Souls That Drugs Saved | 10/10/1994 | See Source »

...show of Clinton's channel-changing skills, his rescindable reality, his now-I-mean-it, now-I-don't. The last, final, no-kidding, planes- in-the-air, lock-and-load, ah'm-gonna-knock-yo'-haid- clean-off dudgeon metamorphosed -- surprise! -- into Jimmy Carter's dropping from the sky into Port-au-Prince. The voodoo of appeasement. Erstwhile murderer-torturer-rapists deserving nothing less than violent eviction (even if the invasion violates U.S. popular and congressional opinion and virtually every lesson learned in Vietnam) became, in the sunshine of Carter's smile and hunger for a Nobel Prize, honorable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evil Is Not Impressed for Very Long | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

...play was magical, babyyyyyy!!! Darren Rankin, a windexman on the glass, pulled down the rebound around three Wildcats. And lookit here!! James White, open downcourt for a three!!! JW came out of Kentucky, and now he says, 'Hey, I can play with youuuu!!! I can play with yoooooouuuuuuu!!!!!" Crimson sky at night, Harvard's delight bbbbaaaaaabbbbbyyyyy!!!!!!! Hello, sweet sixteeeeeeennnnn...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Wouldn't It Be Cool... | 10/1/1994 | See Source »

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