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...country garden of Act II was rendered elegant by a green-ribboned swing suspended from pipes attached to the ceiling. White trellises and plaster cherubim supporting a bird bath also added a certain turn-of-the-century...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Being Earnest at Leverett | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...think of how much TV has affected our cultural habits in just a few decades, then get ready for another zap to your system. In the future, what we know as TV will have been transmogrified from a box in the corner into a ubiquitous, wall-to-wall bath of infotainment. And the array of program choices, already so bewildering, will multiply almost to infinity. But that is the predictable part. The most tantalizing and scary prospect is what this electronic deluge will do to us. Will we become zombie consumers of Lethal Weapon 17, or connoisseurs of Greek drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Your Wildest Dreams | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...Winslow group comprises a cluster of small homes situated around a child-care center, recreation area and common dining hall. Residents own their individual housing units, ranging in price from $55,700 for a studio to $160,800 for a four-bedroom duplex, each equipped with kitchen and bath. But everything else is communal. Residents try to eat dinner together in the dining hall five nights a week and brunch on Sundays. Child-care duty rotates among the residents, with several retired townspeople acting as part-time grandparents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking Forward to the Past | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...that it is bulky and dirty. Sulfur oxides (SOx) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) have been indicted as principal villains in the formation of acid rain. More than half the nation's electricity is produced by power plants that burn coal. By running finely ground coal through a chemical bath (currently pentane, a hydrocarbon similar to butane), the Otisca process separates out all but 1% of the mineral content, or ash, and 0.5% of the sulfur that forms sulfur oxides when it burns. Because it is half water, Otisca Fuel produces a cooler flame than straight coal does and hence about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chasing the American Dream | 7/6/1992 | See Source »

...Loveswept" covers show a willingness to progress. Terry Lawrence's Ever Since Adam (#517) takes place on a spaceship. The man sports a cool state-of-the-art watch; the woman has a short, stylish haircut and is wearing only a bath towel. Here is a cover which is not afraid to face the future. On the back of the book, we read that "Adam Strade made [the heroine] tingle like a rocket seconds before ignition...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Understanding the Romance Novel | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

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