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Network's phenomenal success is due, in large measure, to Hollender's shrewd ability to live off the fad of the land. Network offers a class, for instance, on how to crack crossword puzzles. Gourmets can learn to concoct Japanese raw fish delights or cook a vegetarian Chinese dinner. Singles can practice "Love Strategies for the Successful Woman" and find "Fifty Ways to Meet Your Lover." Those interested in other figures can learn how to incorporate their own businesses, make investments under $2,000 and even read the financial page of a newspaper. People who want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fast Food for the Brain | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

...thinking about them makes me feel like I have swallowed shit. I mean, a rat or a maggot is better than the best white cat who ever drew breath. Just looking at those things makes me want to spit up. Everything they do is rotten." Or this from a cook: "These people hide their dirt or make everybody lie and say their dirt is not dirt or they lie to us about their dirt. I know these are the rottenest people on God's earth, and they know it too. But as long as they can get folks...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Bitter And No Sweet | 7/24/1981 | See Source »

...forget," says Attorney McGowan. Yet Stanford Vice President Joel P. Smith recalls her as "the best dancer I've ever danced with" when he knew her as a member of the Stanford Board of Trustees. She does a nifty two-step and enjoys country music. A superb cook specializing in Mexican dishes, she, along with her husband, is a popular partygiver and -goer. While the prosperous Phoenix lawyer regales guests with Irish jokes told in a brogue, she jumps in to lift stories along, without ever stepping on the punch lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brethren's First Sister: Sandra Day O'Connor, | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...down heavy penalties for possession. Unlike the stereotyped scruffy ghetto addict who turns to mugging or burglary to support his habit, the cocaine user may have a three-piece suit and a well-lined wallet, and probably does his sniffing indoors without becoming unruly or threatening anybody. Says a Cook County, Ill., lawman: "These people are not the dregs of society. They tend to be legitimate business people." The Fourth District Appellate Court in Illinois last March ruled that cocaine is not a narcotic and thus is mis-classified in the state's criminal code. Further, the court found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cocaine: Middle Class High | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

...meals. But fed up with bland food, she has been taking short trips outside: "I leave after lunch and manage to hit three or four restaurants before I feel satisfied. Then I come back to a new hospital tray for dinner." She would like to leave the hospital and cook for herself, but the big problem is money. Rosen lives on a pension of $7,680 a year, and government regulations allow only $2,100 more for people with handicaps. "That," she complains, "would last about a month for buying the extra food I must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Eating Round the Clock | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

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