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...such unravelings, and Clinton, the G.O.P. contends, is especially ill suited to the task because of the perception that he is or has been self-indulgent. It's not just the President's past personal life, say Republicans; it is more the perception that Clinton is unfocused, an issue surfer who grabs at whatever the polls reveal as fashionable at the moment. "When the President stands tall against a middle-class tax cut and in favor of deficit reduction in 1993 and then supports the opposite in 1994, that's not good," says a Clinton adviser. "In a job that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE | 3/13/1995 | See Source »

Volatile alterna-goddess COURTNEY LOVE has found a new outlet for all of her raw emotion. The widow of Kurt Cobain and lead singer of the ever more successful rock band Hole will make her film debut opposite surfer dude-action hero-Hamlet Keanu Reeves in the dark comedy Feeling Minnesota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 6, 1995 | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

RECIFE. After 11 shark attacks in one year in the Recife area, city authorities have been forced to ban surfing at five beaches south of the resort, including the popular Boa Viagem. One surfer died as a result of the attacks. Body boarding, wind surfing and kayaking are also prohibited in the 20-km zone. Swimmers are advised to stay close to shore. The ban is in effect for an indefinite period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME International, Feb. 20, 1995 | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

...like Bird on a Wire, Mel Gibson, for example, used a turn as Hamlet to achieve some gravitas. The latest bardolatrous movie hunk is KEANU REEVES, who, passing up a $6 million offer to star in Without Remorse, traveled to a stage in Winnipeg, Canada, to transform himself from surfer dude to the glum, quibbling Prince of Denmark. And how has he done? A London Sunday Times critic wrote, "He is one of the top three Hamlets I have seen for the simple reason: he is Hamlet ... full of undercurrents and overtones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 6, 1995 | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

...punch line to so many O.J. jokes, the overly moussed aspiring actor was the most memorable witness during Simpson's hearings. A caretaker at the football star's L.A. estate, Kaelin unintentionally lightened the grim proceedings by testifying with a surfer's vapidity. Throughout, one imagined his agent thinking, "If there's a God, Baywatch will call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best and Worst People of 1994 | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

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