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Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of Hollywood's rare action stars who have crossed / over successfully to comedy (Twins). Teamed with a band of cute kids, he seems assured of another musclebound smash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Hot Holiday Season | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...mudstone that gives the sensation of walking on popcorn. When Horner slips, he drives the pick in up to its haft and hangs on as it plows a neat furrow 30 feet down a hillside without catching on anything solid. If this were an Indiana Jones movie, he would smash into something wonderful at the bottom -- the skull of a Pachycephalosaurus, say. In real life, all Horner gets is a banged-up human knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JACK HORNER; Head Man In the Boneyard | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

Bush's political right wing, normally united in militancy, is split between those who, like New York Times columnist William Safire, would smash Saddam Hussein now, and those who, like columnist Patrick Buchanan, are dead set against "an American-initiated war." So far, Bush is more amused than troubled by that debate. A greater concern is the rising specter of a recession. There is not much disagreement on that among Bush partisans. Richard Lesher, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, views the White House from his office window and allows that "recession is all around us already." There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: The Presidency: Bush's Balancing Act | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

GHOST. The summer's surprise smash has something for everyone: mystery, comedy and love with the proper corpse. This pile-driving romance trivializes the issue of mourning the dead (they don't usually return to earth for a quickie), but no matter. Audiences believe in Ghost. It's Field of Dreams with a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Sep. 3, 1990 | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

...territory, but he was also provoked when Khomeini began calling for the overthrow of Saddam's "blasphemous" regime. He is a Sunni Muslim, though most Iraqis belong to the rival Shi'ite branch, as did Khomeini. Saddam responded by invading, confident that his powerful, Soviet-equipped army could easily smash the Ayatullah's ragtag militia, but the Iranians fought back. When the going got especially rough, Saddam turned to poison gas, a horror weapon outlawed after World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saddam Hussein: Master Of His Universe | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

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