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Before the baby came, her bedroom was a dimly lighted chapel dedicated to the idols of rock 'n' roll. Now the posters of Duran Duran and Ozzy Osbourne have been swept away and the walls painted white. Angela Helton's room has become a nursery for six-week-old Corey Allen. Angie, who just turned 15, finds it hard to think of herself as a mother. "I'm still just as young as I was," she insists. "I haven't grown up any faster." Indeed, sitting in her parents' Louisville living room, she is the prototypical adolescent, lobbying her mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Children Having Children | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...mingle in the bleak Minneapolis apartment. The TV is tuned to All My Children, and Stephanie Charette, 17, has collapsed on the sofa. Her rest is brief. Above the babble of the actors' voices comes a piercing wail. Larissa, her three-week-old daughter, is hungry. In an adjacent bedroom, Joey, l l/2 years old and recovering from the flu, starts to stir. Stephanie, who is an American Indian and one of ten children herself, first became pregnant at 15. It was an "accident," she explains. So too was her second baby. "I'm always tired," she laments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Children Having Children | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

After three hours of heated discussion, police officers dragged Mandela from the two-bedroom house and drove her outside the district limits. She returned to Soweto early the next morning, and was arrested by security officials and forcibly carried away In Washington, U.S. officials expressed concern "that Mrs. Mandela's arrest could lead to further escalation of violence in South Africa," and called for her immediate release. A Johannesburg judge charged Mandela with violating her restriction order but released her without requesting bail. A trial is scheduled for Jan. 22. Said Mandela: "I am charged with a crime that does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Bringing the War to Whites | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

What made the screen kiss stimulating in the old days was that the consummation was left to occur in the viewer's imagination. Consider the effect if Rhett Butler had carried Scarlett up the stairs and then the camera had followed them into her bedroom to record the next half-hour. As it was, Vivien Leigh's next-morning smile remains one of the most graphically suggestive moments in the history of movies. Usually, directors were clumsier. In Picnic, Kim Novak and William Holden knelt beside the railroad tracks and kissed as a train thundered out of the tunnel. Elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Changing the Signals of Passion | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Jane Muskie, is a "suspense novel" involving the wife of a Vice President who is hospitalized against her will; hmm, would Martha Mitchell mind? This month will also mark the publication of Conglomerate, by former Congressional Spouse Rita Jenrette; it's a racy story about takeover attempts in both bedroom and boardroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 20, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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