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...survivalist couple (well played by Michael Gross and Reba McEntire) eager to employ their expensive arsenal against something, anything. The middle class, all four of them, is variously unaware, unconcerned and unprepared for emergency. Populism being the operative spirit of this genre, it is up to Perfection's two-man lower class, Val and Earl (adorable Kevin Bacon and solid Fred Ward), to get their betters organized. They make their living doing odd jobs, bicker laconically, dream of urban glamour, can't imagine how to obtain it. But staring into a graboid's gaping mouth, they're the kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Whole Lot of Quaking | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...league corporate scandal. For more than three years, the IRS and the FBI investigated kickback schemes at Gulf Power, an electric utility based in Pensacola, Fla., and all they produced were the convictions of two former managers. But last month the affair took a sudden, dramatic turn. Moments after taking off from Pensacola, a company plane caught fire and crashed, killing its two-man crew and the only passenger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fatal Subtraction | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

Accompanied by a two-man television crew and three state vegetable inspectors, Victor Shinkaretsky bursts through the doors of a small family- leased vegetable store just around the corner from the Kremlin. Startled customers watch as he begins rummaging through the beets, potatoes and carrots. "We're checking for nitrates," Shinkaretsky explains, as the inspectors set up their portable laboratory equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh, No, Here Comes Joe | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...Raiders should have staged a strikeafter they had the opportunity to close theHarvard gap in the second period. Two Crimsonpenalties set up a two-man advantage for Colgateat the 12:26 mark...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Icemen Put a Stop to Red Raid, 8-2 | 12/3/1988 | See Source »

...attorney at Treasury when Campaign Chairman James Baker was the Cabinet Secretary -- was under firm instructions to share most of his findings only with Bush. Thus, despite the broad-ranging search for a running mate, the most vital information of all was in the end filtered through a two-man channel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans:The Quayle Quagmire | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

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