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...will burden the heart unnecessarily. My mother, for one, tries very hard to stay aloof each year. May, June, July she will counsel Dad, me, Kevin and Gail not to care. Dad will have the game on NESN and Mom will emphatically read her mystery novel on the other couch, paying no attention until the final out is made and she can get a "Law and Order" rerun on A&E. August, she'll start to be be aware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faith of Our Fathers | 10/12/1999 | See Source »

...could turn those dreams into reality--in less than 15 minutes. Just settle onto the surgical couch at an ophthalmologist's office and let an incredibly precise excimer laser reshape your eyes, or more accurately your corneas. Then get up and experience a bright new world. At least that's what doctors--and, more important, their ecstatic patients--are saying about LASIK. That's short for laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis), which could well become the most popular elective surgery among baby boomers since they all had their tonsils removed in the 1950s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: R U Ready To Dump Your Glasses? | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...unnecessary excess of women and booze backstage. It pisses me off, because that's what I though being a rock star was about, not "We got tofu on the deli tray." I want to hear somebody bitch and whine because they lost an eight-ball of coke behind their couch, not "Who drank the last bottle of spring water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What's Eating Pop? Notes From The Underground | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

Last Thursday I e-mailed my roommates to say it was safe to talk to me again. The fragile period of self-doubt, confusion, gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair, periodically interspersed with hours spent lying on the couch, my feet up, moaning, had ended: I had picked my classes...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Shopping Period Reconsidered | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

This TV season brings a new challenge to couch jockeys: distinguishing the three series with titles that end in and Again. Here's a channel guide--plus a helpful mnemonic--to relieve the again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deja-View | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

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