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Even the then-director, G. Wright Briggs, agreed to lace...

Author: By Jeremy L. Mccarter, | Title: Harvard Band Still Crazy After 75 Long Years | 10/1/1994 | See Source »

...years that have intervened between his first and second speeches at the sight have seen the issue of family values move from the exclusive province of the right wing to a place squarely in the center of the American political scene. Listen to Jesse Jackson. Listen to Marian Wright Edelman. These pillars of the Left now make speeches that are in many ways indistinguishable--in substance, if not style--from those of Quayle and William Bennett, perhaps the leading commentator on the American crisis of values...

Author: By David L. Bosco, | Title: Family Values, Again | 9/14/1994 | See Source »

...among the corn fields and pastures around Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The gentle prairie breezes are being ruffled by the snarls of thousands of tiny airplanes, birthed in basements and garages, built from plans or kits, antiques rescued from rust and decay by men and women who, like Orville and Wilbur Wright, still want to fly free like birds. Now and then at this mecca of private aviation, the towering cumulus clouds are sundered by warbirds like the gull-winged Corsair, the kind the Jolly Rogers squadron flew in the Pacific, lovingly restored by men with heroic memories and oversize checkbooks (half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugh Sidey's America: Sky King Flies Again | 8/8/1994 | See Source »

EDITORIAL FINANCE: Nancy Krauter (Manager); Carl Harmon, Morgan Krug (Domestic); Camille Sanabria, Aston Wright (News Service); Linda D. Vartoogian, Wayne Chun (Pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead | 8/8/1994 | See Source »

...some drugs and missed out on the nuclear family that in the movie Forrest finally gets to tend. In pumping up Jenny's role, screenwriter Eric Roth transferred all of Forrest's flaws -- and most of the excesses Americans committed in the '60s and '70s to her. Wright's Jenny is a frail soul in tailspin, a battered child in a beautiful woman's body. And Forrest is her redeemer. The suspense of the movie is whether she will allow him to save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: The World According to Gump | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

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