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Reading horribilious accounts of the wet, wide and awful while remaining safe, snug and dry may be a bookworm's naughty perversion. Or call it simple good sense to do one's seafaring while seated and ashore. At any rate, in this boating season armchair mariners have an unusually good selection of chilling watery chronicles to keep them landlocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: CAST UP BY THE SEA | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

Then, out of the blue, Cho slapped his armchair and yelled, "Damn! Basketball...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Seniors Lead Cabot to Glory in Straus Cup Competition | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...Klein articles? "It's just one of those cartoon cliches that are pretty well played out," Lorenz says. "It's like desert-island cartoons. You always think you're never going to want to publish another one." True, and the same probably goes for husband-and-wife-in-armchair cartoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECTATOR: TURN-OFF OF THE CENTURY | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

Last night, I repeated this ritual, this time scanning the heavens for Hale-Bopp. Dining halls had been abuzz with tales of sightings for days, and Harvard's armchair astronomers regaled whoever would listen with hyperbole and an occasional fact. Not wanting to miss out on the chance of four millennia, I turned my eyes skyward yet again. The same pea-sized white blob hung in the sky, and it was only after I cleaned my eyeglasses that I was convinced it was indeed a comet and not a piece of lint from the laundry room--piece of lint whose...

Author: By Gabriel B. Eber, | Title: The Naked Comet | 4/12/1997 | See Source »

...death. "George was hard to understand. He was always dreaming things up.") Obviously, fighting with your father over career paths isn't quite the same thing as having him cut off your hand during a light saber duel, as happens to Luke in The Empire Strikes Back, but armchair analysis sees a connection--one that Lucas shrugs off. "There's a lot of pop psychology on Star Wars, believe me. Some of it is extremely amusing. But I haven't found too much of it that's relevant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE FORCE IS BACK | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

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