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The Proud Parent: Some beaming mom or pop settles in next to me and immediately begins to chatter away. Before long, I must answer scores of questions on my SAT scores, my social life and "exactly how I got into Harvard." I then must endure scores of detailed stories about...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: On the Road Again | 11/21/1990 | See Source »

Crichton's sci-fi is convincingly detailed. He has the cloning process begin not with ground-up fossils (too much DNA deterioration) but with dinosaur blood sucked by mosquito-like insects caught and preserved in amber. As is traditional in such narrations, there is an arrogant technician, who in this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dino DNA | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

But the film is determined to be about something less interesting than sexual combustion. Max is a neat freak, Nora a slob, so for a reel they play Oscar and Felix. She has no friends, his are nudgy -- this movie hates middle- class Jews a lot. Then the lovers must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Odd Coupling | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

A. After the dust settles, everyone will reassess this particular problem. There is a need to look at the issue of democracy and popular participation. Otherwise the area is vulnerable. I don't think things can return to what they were.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with King Hussein: Facing a No-Win Scenario | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

When the dust settles, Germany will be the dominant economic power in Europe--just like it was before unification. In short, other Europeans have little to worry about. East German GNP represents less than 10 percent of the combined German total. Even if unification proves an economic boon, Germany's...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Who's Afraid of United Germany? | 10/3/1990 | See Source »

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