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Leifer has shot 27 covers for TIME on subjects ranging from prison life to America's love for cats. Most recently he photographed the heroic proportions of the U.S. aircraft carrier Carl Vinson by suspending a remote camera from the bow of the ship. Formal weddings are tame by those standards. The subject reminded Leifer of a Norman Rockwell illustration, so he took his camera somewhere it seldom goes -- to a portrait studio. He explained, "Roupen Agopian of the Bachrach studio let me photograph him photographing a young couple. I marveled that he took only 45 minutes to complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Jul. 7, 1986 | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

When Walker shows up, the pretty production assistant who has been assigned to keep him and his bad influence away from Lu Anne complains about the surrounding dullness: "This is all very tame stuff, if you ask me. Outside of the usual drunks. It's so tranquil and businesslike it's almost boring." Walker remarks, "That could change overnight." But before he sets his catastrophe in motion, Stone displays an intriguing cast of behind-the-screen characters. The director, Walter Drogue Jr., is the son of another director, "a man from the mists of legend, a contemporary of Walsh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Accident Waiting to Happen Children of Light by Robert Stone | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

Like his team, Waslen seemed tame last night. And he was the one being dumped on the ice by the Crimson icemen, not the other way around...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: He Just Wahz-n't Enough | 3/8/1986 | See Source »

...bred generation of the sixties, space travel was Star Trek. The space walks and moon landings were pretty tame stuff compared to the phaser-blasting antics of Captain Kirk and his cosmic crew. Apollo was a warm-up, a boring story for adults who couldn't handle the real drama of rampaging Romulans and galaxy-sized amoebas...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Challenger's Mistaken Enterprise | 2/1/1986 | See Source »

...unclear what role Peter Bonventre played in helping Cosell write I Never Played the Game. Bonventre, now a producer on Cosell's Sportsbeat has been a writer and editor at the New York Times and Newsweek magazine, but he certainly hasn't managed to tame Cosell's over-exuberant portrayal of himself...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Cosell Sings Own Praises | 12/4/1985 | See Source »

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