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...takes a little longer with some bugs. They don't seem to get the picture. Last summer, as I was crawling into bed, I spotted a big, black spider on the ceiling. He was a pretty intimidating insect, but it was late, and I was tired. I didn't want to leave the room. I also didn't want the spider to crawl on me. So I kept the light on, lay awake in bed, and worked hard on the telepathy...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Peaceful Coexistence | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

...team told a colleague that doctors are unable to "get the President to sit down." Bush, whose medication is still being fine-tuned, is also having trouble sleeping. Even so, Democrats are premature in their hope that Bush's health will block a re-election bid. "If he can crawl," says an adviser, "he will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slow Down, Mr. President | 7/15/1991 | See Source »

Baker thus was only being realistic when he asserted, "We are dealing with the most intractable problem, I think, that there is." He professed nonetheless to be encouraged even by the slight progress he made. Said the Secretary: "You have to crawl before you walk, and you have to walk before you run." But how much time will there be to crawl or walk before the Middle East returns to a normality spelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Ready, Set -- Crawl | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

Leonard's chief adviser is a fine comic creation, an American named Glass, who sees a spy lurking on every barstool. On one pub crawl, they meet a pretty German divorcee named Maria, and she and Leonard begin an idyllic affair in which they make up their own rules of behavior. But one night, for reasons quite obscure to him, he acts sadistically, and their romance becomes more conventional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Why Spy? | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

...Arbat was lying beside him. Father looked tired, his face seemed grayer and older. He asked, "Do you know already? Did Mama tell you?" I nodded. "Scoundrels! I told them what I think of them. Perhaps I went too far, but it serves them right. They thought I would crawl on my belly in front of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History: Khrushchev On Khrushchev | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

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