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"He is really entertaining, a comedian," she says. "I don't ever get bored."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Irish Mythology Thrills Lit. and Arts Students | 2/4/1996 | See Source »

Exactly a year ago, my husband and I traveled to Yangzhou to meet our daughter. Her orphanage resembled neither the "showcase" facility that Beijing opened to foreign journalists last week nor the horror institute described by Human Rights Watch/Asia. While the orphanage needed many things--more light, a paint job...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: SAVING THE ORPHANS | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

The U.S. has always tended to turn in on itself--Washington famously maintained in his farewell address that "it is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world." Jefferson, too, warned against "entangling alliances." Even as its power has grown, America's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNCERTAIN BEACON | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

And can't Amanda be more than a grab bag of weaknesses? Poor trite thing: she's bored by Lenny's name games and love play. She insists on adopting a child, then all but ignores him. ("I'm the boss," Lenny insists to Max. "Mommy's only the decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: WOODY ALLEN: WHEN ART REDEEMS LIFE | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

At first, the glossy oil painting looked glamorous, with the shiny silver coffee pots in the bar and the clean lines and colors. But as I peered through six people to look more closely, it seemed not glitzy, but wan and bleak. The man and woman seemed bored with life...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Hopper's Wistful Legacy | 10/20/1995 | See Source »

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