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...restaurants, Madden surveys the menu at one, declares, "Nothing here looks like food," and orders a cheeseburger. "On occasion, I've been over 300 lbs.," he confesses, though he is happiest when he is carrying 270 lbs. on his 6-ft. 4- in. frame. Madden is more likely to wash down his cheeseburgers with Diet Coke than with Lite beer, but he is as faithful as a near teetotaler can be to the product that has forged his fame. When passersby shout out, "Tastes great!" he dutifully responds, "Less filling!" Miller Lite commercials have become a kind of folk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Madden: I'M Just a Guy | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

When Bruce Nickell, 52, a state maintenance worker in Auburn, Wash., collapsed and died in June 1986, doctors attributed his death to emphysema. Five days later Susan Snow, another Auburn resident, died after swallowing an Extra- Strength Excedrin capsule that had been laced with cyanide. Nickell's widow Stella told authorities that her husband had taken Excedrin from the same product lot. They concluded that Nickell too was the victim of a cyanide-laced capsule. The two deaths sparked a major criminal investigation and prompted Excedrin manufacturer Bristol-Myers to issue a nationwide recall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington State: The Widow Is The Suspect | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

Nutritionists object to the campaign, since Coke has a fattening, tooth- decaying dose of sugar. One answer: wash down your oatmeal with a sugar- free diet Coke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEVERAGES: Ahh, That Cup Of . . . Coke? | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...house committees so far to consider the proposal, only Dudley's has declined to sign up. Dudley is a non-residential house, it was decided, so the machines wouldn't serve any purpose. But why not? Passion knows no boundaries of time, location or context. Or, it seems, of wash cycles...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: Political Machines | 12/10/1987 | See Source »

Probably the most celebrated of all current channelers is J.Z. Knight, a handsome ex-housewife in Yelm, Wash., who has performed for thousands at a price of $150 each per session. She speaks for Ramtha, a 35,000-year-old warrior who reports that he once lived on Atlantis. He has even dictated a book, I Am Ramtha, published in Portland, Ore., by Beyond Words Publishing and illustrated with photographs of Knight going into a trance on The Merv Griffin Show. Sample words of Ramthan wisdom: "Who be I? I am a notorious entity. I have that which is called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: New Age Harmonies | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

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