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...love it. It's totally impractical as a car, but it's a great toy," he says. "You can only have one passenger and it has very little trunk space. But I love...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: On Top of The World | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

While a shiny sports car may be Wolcowitz's favorite toy, the diversion hasn't kept him out of trouble. Perhaps one of Wolcowitz's most interesting experiences with his Miata came several years ago when he had to pick up his mother at Logan Airport...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: On Top of The World | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

...neighborhood for a corporate headquarters: the fringe of Greenwich Village, set with sedate apartment buildings and churches from the 1840s. It's odd inside too: the ground-floor museum, founded by the late Malcolm Forbes Sr., is stuffed with presidential autographs, czarist Faberge eggs and toy soldiers. From this improbable aerie, Forbes' eldest son Malcolm ("Steve") Forbes Jr., the 48-year-old editor in chief of Forbes magazine, plans to descend into the scrum of Republican presidential politics. He could announce his candidacy as early as this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEVE FORBES: TOP HAT IN THE RING | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

...particularly heated debate, Powell recalls U.N. Ambassador Madeleine Albright asking him in frustration, "What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?'' As Powell relates it, "I thought I would have an aneurysm. American G.I.s were not toy soldiers to be moved around on some sort of global game board...I told Ambassador Albright that the U.S. military would carry out any mission it was handed, but my advice would always be that the tough political goals had to be set first. Then we would accomplish the mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLIN POWELL ON COLIN POWELL | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

Though this film's Van Helsing (lank, loopy Peter Fonda) sleeps inside a grand piano, Nadja is a fairly close reading of the Stoker tale. What distinguishes it is its serenely mannerist glamour. Almereyda shot parts in glorious "Pixelvision"--with a toy camera that gives the most garish images the patina of a dreamscape. Nadja is beyond a midnight movie; it's a late late show for the artistic couch potato...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE INDIE 500 | 8/28/1995 | See Source »

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