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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.: Marlboro Man must have fallen off his horse when he heard the news. Philip Morris, makers of Marlboro and the veritable Zeus of Big Tobacco, has effectively admitted that smoking kills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tobacco Chief in Deaths Confession | 8/21/1997 | See Source »

...major genre of electronic game with an age-old impulse: shoot-'em-ups like Doom tap the primal instinct for survival, while puzzle games like Tetris satisfy the need for order, control and reason. The games' larger-than-life superheroes are interpreted as contemporary reincarnations of mythological figures like Zeus and Prometheus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: ALL WIRED UP | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

...production designer), challenges the eye: blink, and you'll miss the sign in the sky indicating that Marilyn Monroe isn't just a star, she's a whole constellation. The script by Musker, Clements, Bob Shaw, Donald McEnery and Irene Mecchi is rife with Oedipus riffs, Achilles spiels, Zeus zingers and roman-numeral jokes--"Somebody call IX-I-I." The Greeks had a word for it: shtick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A HIT FROM A MYTH | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

...operatic Hunchback score, hasn't delved this deeply into pop pastiche since his 1982 off-Broadway hit, Little Shop of Horrors. The quintet of Muses, like Little Shop's black-thrush trio, tells the story, doing justice to the jaunty R.-and-B. inflections ("and then along came Zeus") of David Zippel's serviceable lyrics. The ballad Go the Distance, as pummeled by Michael Bolton, is the tune you'll hear coming from every radio, music store and elevator this summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A HIT FROM A MYTH | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

...Dole's game plan sounded too good to be true, and it was. After he clinched the Republican nomination in March, Dole was supposed to return to his promontory on Capitol Hill where, as a modern-day, legislative Zeus, he would hurl bill after bill down Pennsylvania Avenue at a cowering Bill Clinton, who would either have to sign on to the Republican agenda or become a veto-happy obstructionist. By convention time, voters would know who was boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: LOOK WHO'S TALKING | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

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