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...THERE was more to the Clinton esque idealism of just retribution for lazy voodoo economics. Something about the hardships of zero growth and increased unemployment brought out the worst in Americans. For one thing, the people just had to blame Bush for the recession. This is the oldest political tragedy in the books; Americans are incapable of differentiating what the government can do from what it cannot...

Author: By Thomas S. Hixson, | Title: Mad as Hell | 5/15/1992 | See Source »

Love is a zero-sum game in America, and the children riot over it. Or rather, they riot in the absence of it: it is usually the want of love that makes children vicious and sends them out of control. It seemed perfect that Cosby, America's ideal fantasy father (black) should vanish just at that moment: video metaphysics. Cosby-Huxtable was a heartbreaking American illusion. There is no deeper need among the nation's most deeply needy blacks than perfect fathers, Dr. Huxtables, role models for male children, grown men who will do the first, indispensable thing for children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Warriors In Los Angeles | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

...radiation, the oldest light in the cosmos. The radiation was created only 300,000 years after the Big Bang explosion that began the universe, a time when all of space was hot, dense and incandescently bright. The radiation is still around now, 15 billion years later, cooled far below zero and transformed from visible light to microwaves. Its discovery in the mid-1960s confirmed the Big Bang as the premier theory of the universe. The theory also says the temperature of this background radiation must vary from spot to spot in the sky. The variations come from areas of higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Bang Theory Gets a Big Boost | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

Sperling also denied that Avenue is a failedinvestment, even though source have told TheCrimson that Aeneas has marked the movie company'svaluation down to zero...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Aeneas Portfolio Attracts Scrutiny | 4/29/1992 | See Source »

...company has been written down to zero,there's creditors' committee, they're no longer indistribution, and yet these people say it's soonto call the company a failure," said one source."That's like people at a funeral not acknowledgingthat the corpse is dead...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Aeneas Portfolio Attracts Scrutiny | 4/29/1992 | See Source »

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