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...television series Gilligan's Island. That bears exploration. The others could join him. There is something to be said for Alcatraz, which shut down its penitentiary 23 years ago. It is secure. The decorators responsible for Caesar's Palace might redo the prison in red velvet flocking and gilt. Still, the island is small, the night air chilly and the foghorns mournful. Strongmen from sunnier latitudes might find themselves depressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Island of the Lost Autocrats | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...applicants' professional experience plus high, realistic ambitions are often the determining factors in their admission. Program participants are selected "if they believe in their own potential and have some experience to back it up," says Velvet G. Miller, associate director of the program...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Back to School for Nation's Politicos | 1/31/1986 | See Source »

...recent memory has as meticulous a look. Eddie's truck is a masterpiece of mud and birdcrap, like a Jackson Pollack custom-designed Chevy. May's motel room is a working model for entropy, strewn with dirty underwear and rumpled blouses. And Eddie's adolescent home boasts a velvet painting of John F. Kennedy, while the ghost-daughter of May's own past bounces behind her on a motel bed, and hugs her, crying, in the foreground of a rusted swingset...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: Don't Be Fooled | 1/8/1986 | See Source »

...shop window piled high with big box radios, Carly Simon's voice sweeps into Fifth Avenue singing That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be. At the south end of the avenue, beyond Sunset Park, the Verrazano Bridge loops like a necklace in a black velvet case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...Oort Cloud, explains Berkeley's Spinrad, would consist of at least a trillion "dull blocks of ice," ranging from a few inches to a few miles in diameter. Out in that velvet blackness of space, where temperatures approach absolute zero, the snowballs remain unchanged, well beyond the effects of solar radiation, meteorite impacts, volcanic activity, atmosphere and other phenomena that have gradually changed the inner members of the solar system. Every once in a while, however, a passing star gives the cloud a gravitational jiggle, releasing hundreds of these fragments. Most of them are sent outward into interstellar space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Greeting Halley's Comet | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

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