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...self-replicating mechanism, sending an identical copy of the original program to every name on their personal electronic mailing lists. In a matter of days, clones of the tiny program had multiplied in such profusion that they clogged the 350,000-terminal network like so many hairs in a bathtub drain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Invasion of the Data Snatchers | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...building, as if the hard-luck lyrics were straight reportage of what's below him. Because there's no plot or dialogue to speak of, almost everything is conveyed by symbol--the three characters, the handheld lamp which focuses the audience's attention on his face, the bathtub that Frank sings in at the movie's end, in his only onstage appearance...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Tom Waits: Making it Big | 9/23/1988 | See Source »

...movie audience to think. But there is nothing religious about a movie, billed as the best baseball film ever, that starts out talking baseball and finishes up talking about the birds and the bees. Bull Durham was more concerned about Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon making love in a bathtub and then in the kitchen and then back to the bedroom. That's religious. But not in the religion of baseball...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Yes, It's So, Joe | 9/23/1988 | See Source »

FRESHMAN year you woke up one morning after what you knew had been a particularly exciting, sweaty keg-in-the bathtub party only to realize that you had trouble remembering what exactly had happened the night before...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Youth Is Wasted On The Young | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

Most never act on the dark impulses, but a few new mothers -- less than 1% -- become psychotic. These may suffer extreme agitation, feel persecuted and begin hallucinating. Angela Thompson of Sacramento drowned her nine-month-old son in the bathtub after hearing the voice of God tell her the child was the devil. It has been five years since her son's death, but her recollection of her mental state is still vivid. "I thought if I killed the baby that my husband would raise him to life again in three days and that the world would know that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Why Mothers Kill Their Babies | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

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