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Table Money has its affectionate touches, like the etiquette for throwing out the trash: "The proper Glendale housewife keeps such a small garbage can in the kitchen that it must be emptied four and five times a day. The sweater tossed over the shoulders goes with the chore." There is a salute to the Delahanty Institute, which prepared generations of young men for the police- and fire-department exams, and a bitterly funny scene in which two sandhogs find themselves in a midtown Manhattan bar filled with three-piece suits and attaché cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Just One More for the Road | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...even the most basic instinct for staying fit. Exercise should be a daily activity at the top of everyone's list of things to do. It gives a feeling of well-being that cannot be matched by any of our more stationary daily activities. Exercise should not be a chore. It should be a personal requirement that every American feels happy to fulfill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 27, 2005 | 6/19/2005 | See Source »

...nest of spare wires. Nor did I have hours to figure out how everything fit together. It didn't matter; in no time my friends had set up the projector and were aiming it at a white wall where a picture had been hanging. My only chore was to pull the remote control from the box and press the power button...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinego D-1000 Instant Theater | 5/25/2005 | See Source »

...colored walls, you can wash your clothes or pore over any of 4,000 secondhand books on sale. Icelandic owner Fridrik Weisshappel J?nsson says people have warmed to the concept "because modern-city living places importance on saving time, and here they can have lunch and do a daily chore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coffee, Tea or Laundry? | 4/4/2005 | See Source »

...wash your clothes or pore over any of 4,000 secondhand books on sale. Icelandic owner Fridrik Weisshappel Jônsson says people have warmed to the concept "because modern-city living places importance on saving time, and here they can have lunch and do a daily chore." Just over Dronning Louises Bro (bridge) is Barbarellah, tel: (45) 3332 0061, a café, restaurant, lounge bar and fashion store. Barbara Bascunan and her brothers Daniel and Pablo opened the café, which is full of their customized flea-market acquisitions, last July, and virtually everything is up for grabs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coffee, Tea or Laundry? | 4/3/2005 | See Source »

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