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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A grim kind of camaraderie is evident among owners of orphaned computers. Those who cannot afford to scrap their machines or donate them to schools as tax deductions often turn to fellow users for comfort and support. As a result, hundreds of orphan-user groups have sprung up across the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: A Generation of Orphans | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

What follow is 100 pages, 99 too many, describing the seamier side of Lauren's double life. Her work after hours takes her into the nighttime dens of London's healthy Arabs and the hotel rooms of travelling businessmen, some of whom are merely looking for companionship others for an...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: Half-Baked | 3/5/1985 | See Source »

Investment-minded home-computer buffs can also link their machines via telephone to information services like Dow Jones News/Retrieval or the Source, which provide stock quotations and financial news. With the help of such personal-computer programs as Winning on Wall Street and Market Analyst, investors can become financial analysts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bull and Bear Brawl | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

Stubbs lived at a time of intense curiosity about the animal world. Strange creatures and people from the corners of a growing empire drew crowds when they were put on show in rented London rooms; photography had not made all things familiar. The wonders of Africa, America and the Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art:George Stubbs: A Vision of Four-Legged Order | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

It requires a heart of stone to keep a straight face at the passing of Little Sophie, and neither the script nor the acting aids in that endeavor. Nor does the picture's style. One would like to think that when a film embraces the conventions of 1950s imagery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Thinking Big | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

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