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...July 25, 1819, Keats wrote to Fanny Brawne: "My sweet girl...I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute. I hate the world." Going once? Going twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Am I Bid For This Heart? | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...before the meal. "And please, dear God, make Bobby buy me a bigger dining-room table." It was an understandable plea from the mistress of Hickory Hill, the Robert Kennedy family's child-beswarmed antebellum homestead in McLean, Va. After Bobby's death, Ethel was left to raise a brood of 11. Today the nine surviving R.F.K. offspring form the largest single clan among the Kennedy third generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bobby and Ethel Kennedy's Brood: The Weight of Legacy | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

Whether your Yuletide house teems with merry life or relative strife, whether you're with the brood or just brooding, whether that lump in your stocking's a Tamagachi or a rotten egg, nothing seals the season like a Christmas movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Merry Couch-mas To All | 12/23/1997 | See Source »

...There are no secrets revealed herein on the logistics of rearin' up such a brood; rather the film stages a mythic, comic, quirk-riddled ballet all aswirl around young Nathan Jr., one of moviedom's most-sought babies. Seen it already? See it again. A cult classic with its own genre that makes the heralded Fargo look like Baby's Day Out. Very, very dear to the Couch Potato Man's bulbous brown heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing Up Couch Potato | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

...world has become so involved in the progress of this plucky litter of prematures since their birth Wednesday that the loss of one of their number would feel like a grief on the scale of Diana. Not to fear, however ? neonatologist Dr. Robert Shaw pronounced Bobbi McCaughey's brood "warm, pink and comfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Baby Boomers | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

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