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- <text>
- <title>
- (Jan. 06, 1992) Best of 1991
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Jan. 06, 1992 Man of the Year:Ted Turner
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BEST OF 1991, Page 66
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Wars rage around the globe. A vast, tragic empire
- collapses. The economy constricts painfully. But ordinary life--and extraordinary life--goes on. People still write
- novels and environmental treaties, design solar cells and stage
- sets, orchestrate symphonies and ad campaigns. They still care
- about tossing a salad or a baseball superbly. From science to
- show biz, they exert all the passion, wit, ingenuity, game
- playing--and, yes, the ego, venality and damn-fool silliness--that keep the human enterprise steaming along so
- entertainingly.
- </p>
- <p> And at the end of the year we feel compelled to sort it
- all out. Why? To impose order on the culture jumble, perhaps to
- restore a reassuringly human scale: when Warren Beatty
- represents a peak and Geraldo Rivera the pits, the concepts of
- triumph and disaster have been safely domesticated. And, of
- course, to play the parlor game. (The Simpsons better than
- thirtysomething? Come on!)
- </p>
- <p> Some of the personalities and achievements singled out in
- the following pages will prove to be stars who shine only to be
- eclipsed, records that stand only to be broken. Many others will
- soon be swept into history's Dumpsters, as used up as New Year's
- confetti. A few--we can't know which--will turn out to
- matter, and to last. Whether by typifying 1991 or by
- transcending it, whether by embodying some great theme of the
- day or by quietly capturing the everyday, they will reverberate
- as long as, maybe longer than, the dramatic headlines now
- shouting at us. They will be, in Ezra Pound's phrase, news that
- stays news.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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