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...Nepal, which was long known as the Forbidden Land and closed to foreigners until as recently as 1951, can now stay comfortably at the Hotel Eden in Katmandu. Just around the corner, he can dine at the Paradise Restaurant or the Earth's Heaven Restaurant; after dinner, he can stroll to Nirvana Tours, the Hotel Shangri-La or a host of other 50 cents-a-night flophouses and cappuccino houses. There, the locals are sure to remind him that the real paradise is that great American city across the sea, rich with Cadillacs and videos and fast-food joints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: How Paradise Is Lost - and Found | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

...public references to her as "the Boss." For him, though, she was. She died in 1982, nearly ten years after Harry, and was buried beside him in Independence. "I like the idea," he once told the Boss, "because I may just want to get up some day and stroll into my office. And I can hear you saying, 'Harry--you oughtn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: May 19, 1986 | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...American West and Alaska, keeping to himself, getting by on odd jobs, never staying in one place for very long. Last week the misanthrope, who wants only to be left alone, briefly became a focus of international attention. Early this month the Wanderer took a 2 1/2- mile stroll across the frozen Bering Strait, from America's Little Diomede Island to Big Diomede in the U.S.S.R. The suspicious Soviets moved him to a tiny room on the mainland and interrogated him there for nearly two weeks. Weymouth finally convinced them that he was not seeking to defect--just wandering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alaska: Wandering into Trouble | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...believe it," I said, watching Louis catch a pass behind me and stroll into the endzone...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: ...It Had Become Pathetic | 4/18/1986 | See Source »

...everyone on both sides of the camera aspires to the ordinary. As playwright (The Trip to Bountiful) and screenwriter (Tender Mercies), Horton Foote has backpacked over this terrain for two generations. On Valentine's Day, the prequel (though not the equal) of last year's 1918, marks one more stroll through Foote's family plot. Again we find the Vaughn and Robedaux families forcing smiles and small talk as the Great War rages 5,000 miles from their southeastern Texas town. Again we see Horace Robedaux (William Converse-Roberts) pledging love to his gentle bride Lizzie (Hallie Foote) and declaring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Spring-Cleaning Rummage Sale | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

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