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There are other, less popular, but more exotic packages available, such as helping Uncle Sam check the spread of the Communist menace in Honduras--all expenses paid. But the vast array of choices with so little time to decide might make you want to simply crawl into your closet and sleep for a week...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Doctoroff, | Title: A Harvard Guide to Hedonism | 3/23/1988 | See Source »

...glory but a dim interregnum. The Mycenaean Greece that leveled Troy around 1200 B.C. was itself in ruins a hundred years later, smashed by Dorian invaders from the north. There followed a dark age that lasted three centuries, when even the alphabet was lost, and then a long, slow crawl back up to the light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Giant Step Into the Light | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...sports car will not reopen until Jan. 22, and even then production will be cut back by two-thirds. The slowdown is the result of Porsche's overreliance on the American market, which absorbed about 60% of the company's production in 1986. But 1987 sales slowed to a crawl because of the stock-market crash and the decline of the dollar against the West German mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Porsche Comes To Shove | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

...face the direction from which someone is speaking. Playmates, of La Mirada, Calif., has come out with Jill, ($150) a trendy twelve-year-old companion and raconteur. Telling a story about a haunted house, Jill might ask, "Should we go in the front door, the back door or crawl in a window?" The child's choice determines the direction of the story. Extra voice tapes include Jill's Slumber Party and Jill Goes to the Mall, complete with credit card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Call These Toys? | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...encouraging. For one thing, it is difficult in 1987 to generate much suspense over whether or not Lincoln will free the slaves. Curiosities have to be piqued by something other than the plot. But Safire does not seem to acknowledge this necessity. His narrative is hobbled to a crawl by the freight of information it must carry. Characters are rarely allowed to act and think like recognizable human beings; instead, they must constantly remind themselves (and possibly forgetful readers) just who they are and what they have done. Hence Union General John Fremont muses about his wife: He "knew that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Case of Divided Loyalties FREEDOM | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

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