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...entering or leaving at any time), I can get lost in the incessant comings and goings on weekday mornings and afternoons. Forgetting who has just come in, I have tried to deduce a person's identity from the elevator camera's glimpse at the top of his head. While bald men have a reasonably good chance of being sent to the right floor, others have little luck. And should someone be sent to the wrong floor, he oftentimes arrives at a foreign landing with a peculiar indignation--as if my mistake were more insolence than inattention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POSTCARD FROM THE BRONX | 7/10/1998 | See Source »

...scrapes with fate as that we could join them in the fantasy chaos. It's no accident that our favorite side characters are not the delectably evil Cancer Man (the architect of an imminent armageddon that FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully must stop) or even the beloved, bald Walter Skinner (their boss at the agency) but the Lone Gunmen, three earnest dorks who sometimes fight the future by hacking into a computer or peering into a microscope at a heretofore unknown virus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: An X-Phile Confesses | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...suits just won a round. The big ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG retrospective that was wildly popular in New York and Texas was to travel next to the Ludwig Museum in Cologne. But one of the artist's most famous and important works, Canyon, below left, a collage that features a stuffed bald eagle with a box in its talons, may not make it. Under the U.S. Eagle Protection Act, regulation No. 50CFR22.2, no bald eagle, no matter how long dead (this one flapped off its mortal coil more than 40 years ago), may leave the U.S. at any time. "It would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 15, 1998 | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

...Number of players in first round of the NBA play-offs, out of 192, who were bald or had shaved heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 18, 1998 | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

Oldest candidates for delisting or downlisting: bald eagle, gray wolf, Aleutian Canada goose, Columbian white-tailed deer, Hawaiian hawk and Pahrump poolfish, all listed since March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 18, 1998 | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

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