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...predicting the future if only because of the human tendency to fit new events into familiar categories. In a celebrated 1950s experiment, psychologist Jerome Bruner showed that ordinary people would "see" a red ace of spades as a regular black one if it was salted into an otherwise normal deck. The Smithsonian exhibit demonstrates that inventors are fooled in the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Dashed Hopes and Bogus Fears | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

...little like shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic," says Stone, who says a new state tax package is the only real solution. "This is kind of interesting but it doesn't address the basic problem--the state has got to start funding higher education like the future depends on it--they...

Author: By Erik M. Weitzman, | Title: Mass. Higher Education System Faces Tough Times | 4/24/1990 | See Source »

Danny's search brings his beautiful wife back to his arms. But as they stroll on the deck of the Queen Mary, he finds himself turning away, drawn to the smoky lounge where women with too many ruffles dance with men in plaid jackets. He longs to be like them, so attuned to each other they could dance without music, as close as "spoons nestling in the wife's silver drawer." It is this yearning for the absolute safety of love that saves him in the end from Lauren's deadly designs, and from himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unsafe Sex | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

...John Soto should have his brain tested," the editorial read, arguing that the candidate "is obviously not playing with a full deck...

Author: By David G. Zermeno, | Title: Frank Challenger Draws Criticism for Remarks | 3/6/1990 | See Source »

Shuffling the Deck: After fourth-line forward Jim Coady filled in admirably for injured defenseman Kevin Sneddon during the Vermont/RPI weekend, Cleary decided to keep him at the blue line...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: M. Pucksters Set For Cornell | 2/28/1990 | See Source »

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