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...sound underneath the look may remind the uninitiated of the sound-track music that usually accompanies movie scenes of airplanes landing at palm-lined airports: easy rhythm, heavy percussion, peppy horns. But Discos CBS, a division of CBS Records International, has begun signing up merengue bands, and there are indications the sound is getting slicker. Bands led by Bonny Cepeda and Wilfrido Vargas are experimenting with synthesizers as a way to bring the music to a wider audience. "The great thing about Americans is that if you show them how to do a dance, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: You Can't Stop Dancing | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...arrived there aboard a seagoing yacht, forms colonies underground. Its subterranean paths sometimes extend as far as 300 ft. Says Entomologist Nan-Yao Su of the University of Florida's Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center: "In one instance, in Hallandale, Fla., a single colony had driven foraging tunnels underneath four large condominium buildings and infested each one." The insects chew up virtually anything in their path. Last year downtown Honolulu lost power for half a day after Formosan termites severed a 1-in.-thick electrical cable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Scourge of Alien Insects | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...Underneath the big top, with the greatest of delicacy and the easy smile of a star, Dick Withington is juggling invisible Indian clubs. Up goes his left hand: "16,000." Down goes his left hand and up goes his right hand: "17,000." Left hand again, supple and rock steady: "18,000." His knees are slightly bent, his weight well forward. His voice as he calls off the ascending prices is clear and controlled, the even numbers chanted a couple of notes higher than the odd. There is no trace of strain. He can keep the bidding on this early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene in New Hampshire: and You're a Winner! | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...highlight of the mission for Chief Archaeologist Scott Sledge, 38, was the discovery of a brass regimental facing plate, a shieldlike ornament from a soldier's bearskin cap, with the word royal clearly distinguishable. After gingerly brushing away some silt, Sledge recalls, "I came across something shiny right underneath." It was embedded in the surrounding coral, which he had to chip away carefully. Just as he was about to give up for the day and return to the surface, the plate loosened, and he was able to slide it out of the coral in perfect condition. Says Sledge: "That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Down into the Deep | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

Even hidden underneath the seats in a movie theater, shaking with fear, you can see what makes Aliens out of this world. Not just a great horror flick, but a great movie, complete with characters and feeling. Rare for Hollywood...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: A Great Scare | 7/25/1986 | See Source »

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