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Disappearing earnings have already become the bugaboo of China Tire, which was born on the New York Stock Exchange in July 1993 -- a $100 million offering orchestrated by Morgan Stanley. China, tires -- it sounded like a wondrous proposition, but Kaye says it isn't. "All Morgan Stanley did was pull a couple of outmoded bias-ply tire plants off the shelf and repackage them. It's going to take a lot of money to convert those plants to radials. Meanwhile, China Tire isn't being paid for the tires it sells already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Money: Bear in the China Shop | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

Presley was funky and unbridled, passionate and rebellious, respectful of the maverick traditions his music sprang from but proudly, defiantly new. His singing tapped and trapped that mysterious, wondrous thing at the heart of American popular music. Sam Phillips, who recorded all Elvis' early sides for his seminal Sun Records, called that elusive core the place "where the soul of man never dies." Presley would never have put it in such high-flown terms. When That's All Right, Mama became a hit, he simply let himself be borne heavenward in the great celebrity updraft. hurry home, he wired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Comet Over Tennessee | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

Powell's sad life and wondrous music were in large part the inspiration for filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier's fond 1986 jazz eulogy, 'Round Midnight, but what is so imposing about the music on these CDs -- immediately, insistently impressive -- is not the sorrow but the vigor. Powell's may have been a troubled spirit, compromised and violated, but it was never stilled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAZZ: The King of the Hill | 10/31/1994 | See Source »

Cirque's triumph is that it has kept to the point, to its earliest mission of blending circus with theater. And if the meta-Broadway superproduction Mystere is the most theatrical of Cirque shows so far, Alegria is the most circusy, the most intimate, traditional, European. Though it boasts wondrous sets and costumes -- an aviary motif with acrobat birds in brilliant plumage -- it is dominated by the clowns, most of them Russian, with a dolorous wit and poignant stories to tell. In one sketch a clown-bird perches alone on a telegraph wire (a rope stretched across the stage) enjoying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Voila! Cirque du Soleil | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

Sport: A baseball strike will ruin a wondrous season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 8/8/1994 | See Source »

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