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...with heart problems, BORIS YELTSIN sure is frisky. As he arrived at what was supposed to be a press conference regarding his coming summit meeting with President Clinton, Yeltsin playfully tweaked two female secretaries. One woman, startled by this gesture of fellowship, sat bolt upright and spun around; the other barely reacted. The oddball presidential games over, the gathering got serious. Yeltsin announced that he was firing his Foreign Minister; the following day he changed his mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 30, 1995 | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

...show's theme song along with a selection of pop numbers heard at some point on the series. CDs for the hit Fox shows Beverly Hills, 90210 and Melrose Place feature such musicians as Vanessa Williams, Annie Lennox and the alternative-rock favorite Urge Overkill. A 1994 CD spun off from the sitcom Coach contains, incongruously enough, music by James Brown and Marvin Gaye. The sound track for the Fox drama New York Undercover, released last month, features Gladys Knight as well as popular hip-hop performer Mary J. Blige...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIME-TIME TUNES | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

...ended the protests. Television in the West promoted a simplified view of a unified leadership among the students with a single, well thought-out goal. As filmmakers Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon view it, emotion outweighed reason at every turn, and as events rushed forward, romantic notions about democracy spun out of control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES . . . THE GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE | 10/13/1995 | See Source »

...after 6 p.m. EDT east of Pensacola. More than 55,000 frightened people have already crammed onto U.S. 29 and Interstate 10; thousands of others who waited too long to evacuate were trapped in their homes. At least one person, a 76-year-old woman, was killed when a spun-off tornado destroyed her mobile home. Opal is the ninth and by far the strongest hurricane of the season, one of the roughest ever. State officials compared it Hurricane Camille, which killed 256 people in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana when it hit the Gulf Coast in 1969. Day of Judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HURRICANE OPAL COMES ASHORE | 10/4/1995 | See Source »

...called "Sarah!" and he saw her, somewhere behind him, just as the world spun crazily again, and the trailer was upended with a crash. Now the trailer was lying on its roof; Malcolm started crawling along the ceiling, trying to reach Sarah. He looked up at the lab equipment locked down on the lab benches, above his head. Liquid dripped onto him from a dozen sources. Something stung his shoulder. He heard a hiss, and realized it must be acid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Arts & Media: SHOW BUSINESS | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

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