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Some enthusiasts want a bike to suit every occasion. While one is fine for long solo rides, another might be more appropriate for family outings. Even Michael Sinyard, a regular racer in his spare time, often spends the afternoon on a Specialized Deja Two tandem with his seven-year-old daughter. Says he: "She loves it. She says, 'Dad! This is a great bike! My legs never get tired!' " Other parents tow their youngsters in the $300 Cannondale Bugger, a polyethylene shell that allows the whimsical child to sit facing backward, watching the landscape spin away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sporting Goods: Rock And Roll | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

...nephew of Senator Edward Kennedy and a Georgetown medical school graduate, who is charged with raping a 29-year-old woman at the Kennedy compound during Easter weekend. The three women tell remarkably similar stories about meeting Smith at a party, then being offered an escort home and a spare room at his parents' place; none of the women suspected that any harm could come to them. "He was quite charming," recalls one witness, who met Smith at a party in Manhattan in 1983. "I felt completely comfortable with him." In each case there was some drinking, some chitchat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Palm Beach Rape Case: Then There Were Three | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

...becoming increasingly clear that Toni Childs plays only by her own rules. HOUSE OF HOPE (A&M) is a record about emotional battering: in love, in childhood, in marriage. The songs, mostly written and produced with the formidable David Ricketts, soar and surprise; the lyrics have a spare astringency, which is just the right tone in which to tell these tales of burdened hearts and spirits that, against all odds and expectations, refuse to * be broken. You can hear House of Hope pouring out of the car radio this summer as Thelma and Louise barrel along in their T-Bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Burdened Spirits, Soaring Songs | 7/29/1991 | See Source »

...from diaper and sushi deliveries to kinky romantic trysts can be had with a few touch tones, yet another novel entry has arrived in this vibrant market-by- wire. Why spend hours traveling to the doctor's office, leafing through out-of-date magazines, waiting for the healer to spare a moment of precious, not to mention expensive time, when one can now get instant medical gratification over the phone? Why not simply dial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reach Out and Cure Someone | 7/22/1991 | See Source »

...Recall)) where he shoots a woman in the head and says, 'Consider that a divorce.' " Sarandon insists that all concerned spent a lot of time making sure Thelma & Louise didn't turn into "a bloodlust-revenge film." Certainly, compared with the typical male- action film, the violence here is spare and rather chastely staged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gender Bender Over Thelma & Louise | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

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