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Tired of people whose watches beep periodically to remind them an hour has passed? This Seiko timepiece beeps for a better reason: to signal an incoming phone message. With the press of a button, the caller's number appears on the watch face. The combination watch and beeper enables owners to stay in touch without clipping a boxy beeper on a belt or stuffing one in a handbag. Beeper telephone service must be arranged separately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Products of 1994 | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

...look that flashes across his face is a tiny cornucopia of rue, love, self-disgust, fear and resignation. Calista Flockhart's Laura is near perfect, her pathological shyness so organic that it is painful to watch. Only a tendency to sing her words mars her performance. As the Gentleman Caller upon whom Amanda pins her great hopes for Laura, Kevin Kilner is properly hearty, even if his self-assurance seems a bit put on rather than intrinsic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: One Small, Unhappy Family | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

...call to the hotline yesterday revealed that as soon as the hotline operator offers to mail the packet, the caller is barraged with a series of sales offers for books and journals. The ASHA is a non-profit organization...

Author: By Kris J. Thiessen, | Title: Hotline Aids Herpes Victims | 11/29/1994 | See Source »

...telephone never stops ringing in the shabby downtown office of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. "At what hospital did this happen?" David Paz Soldan, a 26-year-old lawyer, is patiently asking the Spanish-speaking caller. A moment later he is fielding another complaint: "You say police confiscated your car because you did not have a green card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Lines and Hot Tempers | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

...problem with women working is that they take away jobs that then could have. When women work outside the home, they destroy the family." --Kathy, a radio caller to Jim Hightower's Austin, Texas-based talk-show, quoted in the Boston Globe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPEAK | 11/18/1994 | See Source »

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