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...misses the point to say that Murphy Brown is not a real character. Fiction is real enough in its powers. When Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, he said, "So this is the little lady who made this big war." That, at least, is the legend. Little Eva perhaps belongs to a higher order of symbolism than Murphy Brown's baby, but the simple principle, the power of stories, remains the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folklore in a Box | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

...line, former friends say, he embraced failure. In 1980, after an inheritance quarrel, Kreimer abandoned the house and moved to Denver. During that time, he would often make late-night phone calls to people back in New Jersey asking for emergency loans to return home. According to Joel Beecher, a family friend, people in the community wired hundreds of dollars; none of the money brought him home, and the loans were never repaid. Although Kreimer sold the house in 1981 for $61,000, he was broke upon arriving back in Morristown three years later. Bills and "family difficulties," he claims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Of His Own Sad Comedy: RICHARD KREIMER | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

Visions of notecards and Harriet Beecher Stowe danced through my head...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: A Tale of Angst and Oreos | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

...President also called attention to a just released antiabortion film, The Silent Scream, a startling 28-minute documentary that shows ultrasound images of a twelve-week-old fetus being aborted. Activists predict the film will become a high-technology Uncle Tom's Cabin, arousing the public just as Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 antislavery novel ignited the abolitionist movement. Declared Reagan: "It's been said that if every member of Congress could see that film, they would move quickly to end the tragedy of abortion." The producer, American Portrait Films of Anaheim, Calif., plans to mail the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abortion: New Heat Over an Old Issue | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

Several studies have documented the efficacy of placebos. In 1955, Harvard Researcher Beecher found that sugar pills work one-third of the time in treating conditions ranging from headache and seasickness to wound pain. Levine and Fields of U.C.S.F. have reported that a placebo was capable of mimicking the effect of four to six milligrams of morphine, a mild dose, in patients suffering the pain of tooth extractions. U.C.S.F. researchers have also shown that the placebo effect is partly due to the stimulation of the body's endorphin system. When the action of endorphins is inhibited (by using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unlocking Pain's Secrets | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

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