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...female friend recently suffered a classic contemporary dilemma: What to furnish the apartment with first, a couch or a video-games console? A couch is nice to sit on, but a console is "a man magnet," she decided. "No male can resist the challenge." I knew what she meant. For mindless fun, you can't beat a console evening. Invite your friends over, gather round the TV, crack open a six-pack and get down to the serious business of knocking the stuffing out of them. It does wonders for your social life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dream Machine | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

...will await the verdict of housing lottery gods, maybe spending that fateful night curled up in your future roommates' room, on an odd-smelling couch that has been who-knows-where...

Author: By Andrew K. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Welcome to My World, and Yours | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

...could the computer screen's cold glare ever replace a therapist's caring gaze? It may be hard to imagine, but for a growing number of people dissatisfied with traditional talk therapy, the convenience and anonymity of the Internet beat $100 sessions on the couch hands down. After all, if people are willing to bare their innermost feelings to a newfound love online, why not discuss deep-seated anxieties that way as well? Some 150 counselors listed on the website metanoia.org/imhs offer online therapy by videoconferencing, e-mail or live chat. Skeptics say the lack of nonverbal cues makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Virtual Couch | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

Distractions, distractions. Everything in Diana Ross's midtown Manhattan apartment vies for your attention: a zebra-patterned couch, brightly colored Warhol portraits of Ross, a table full of black panther statuettes, a large gold Hindu figurine. One thing holds your focus: Ross herself. The 55-year-old Motown great looks fabulous--slim, smiling, sexy. She seems as breezily radiant as she ever was, flipping back her wavy black hair after every other sentence. One wonders why it took so long for the Oscar-nominated star of such big-screen films as Lady Sings the Blues (1972) and the TV movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Stop! In the Name of Divas | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

Schlant boldly puts a society's literature on the couch, but her underlying meaning is also strong: only individuals are capable of feeling grief and the release that comes with mourning the loss of innocence. Change, therefore, must come one good book and one generous gesture at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Art of Denial | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

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