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It couldn't happen to a more deserving fella. Loesser would tell you that. As brash as any gravel-gargling high roller from Guys and Dolls, he was famous for telling his singers, "Loud is good," and he applied that maxim to his professional life. For Loesser, a song was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Snappy Fella | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

On March 17 citizens throughout the U.S.S.R. went to the polls to vote on a Kremlin-sponsored referendum on the future of the country. While the wording was vague, the stakes were clear: a positive vote would be taken as a mandate for Gorbachev to continue the process of redefining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Origins: Prelude to a Putsch | 9/2/1991 | See Source »

"There should be limits to what we are prepared to tolerate," says president Stephen Balch of the National Association of Scholars, based in Princeton, N.J., which is dedicated to fighting lockstep leftism in academia. "But in a free society where people are going to get along, those limits have to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Accusations Busybodies: New Puritans Repent! | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

The defense countered with the argument that breaking wind is a form of free speech, and that the right to flatulence was protected, in theory if not in so many words, by the First Amendment. After listening patiently to both sides, the judge concluded that the unusual form of aggressive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exculpations Crybabies: Eternal Victims | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

Seven opposition groups have joined to protest the council's existence and urge that the old, suspended parliament be reinstated. Few Kuwaitis seem to care. By calling the council back, the Emir hoped to establish a nonthreatening channel for complaints. He has not been disappointed. Within days of the council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kuwait: Back to the Past | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

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