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Even the Pope joined in. He ended a meeting with pilgrims early and was whisked away to a papal retreat, where he watched through a piece of welder's glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eclipse: Good, Bad And Disappointing | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

Travis Brin, a 24-year-old welder, remembers being at parties with Aaron McKinney, who was like a lot of people who talk a lot. He had nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Be Young And Gay In Wyoming | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

Chen has two sons and two daughters; his elder son and a daughter work in the provincial capital, Chengdu. His other son has gone south to the booming city of Guangzhou, where he works as a welder while his wife does shift work at a shoe factory. They send back $75 a month to the family. "Just about every family in this village has someone in Guangzhou. They say life is all right there. They have fish and meat to eat every day. Of course it is better to be in the village where you come from, but there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The China Summit: The Pulse Of China | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

...written by "Basic Instinct" screenwriter and quintessential dirty old man, Joe Esterhas, who also was responsible for the early-'80's hit "Flashdance." That movie was just as badly written as Esterhas' later work and has an equally offensive storyline (about an eighteen-year-old woman who is a welder by day, sexy nightclub dancer by night), but has something which most movies do not: Jennifer Beals. In the nineties, Esterhas' biggest movies ("Basic Instinct" and the recent "Showgirls") have recieved a great deal of publicity as being terribly offensive and demeaning to women. The truth is, they aren...

Author: By Benjamin Cavell, | Title: JADE | 10/12/1995 | See Source »

...Desert Inn Motel, the gossip is of the woman who swims naked in the pool across the street and of the Chinese and Indians who are buying up local motels. Paul Coyle, a 59-year-old retired welder with a long white beard and trembling hands, lives on Social Security and drinks a bottle of 151-proof Bacardi a day. He moved into the motel three months ago, after living in a casino parking lot for two years in his 1967 Cadillac. When his wife left him in 1986, Coyle had the names of his 16 children tattooed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEARTBREAK MOTEL | 5/29/1995 | See Source »

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