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...approval rating sank to 43% in a recent poll. Bothe sides will try to win in Columbus, Dayton and Canton. Kerry needs a big turnout in Cleveland and Toledo; Bush needs it in the northwestern Farm Belt and the Cincinnati suburbs. Legal fights??are already erupting over electionprocedures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: Election Day Guide | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

...opening his mouth and putting his foot in it. The Queen Mother is everybody's baby sitter. Lord Snowdon and Princess Margaret are the scandalous bohemians; they actually stay out late at night, have been known to drink, and it is widely rumored that on occasion they even have fights???and fun. Princess Anne, Charles' younger sister, is beginning to give her aunt and uncle a run for the tabloid money. Only 17, she has lately turned from a chubby duckling into a passably delectable swan, wings through London in exotic hats and miniskirts, and recently danced on the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: BRITAIN'S PRINCE CHARLES: THE APPRENTICE KING | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

...that Norwegian nature is a monotone in its cold indifference Ibsen somewhat dispelled by his twin studies of the two Norwegian extremes: Peer Gynt, shiftless, debonair; and Brandt, steadfast, bitterly serious-minded. To dispel another popular impression?that the Vikings were god-like blonds exclusively engaged in swift sea fights???Sigrid Undset in turn makes twin studies: the Kristin Lavrans datter trilogy of some 500,000 words, and The Master of Hestviken, unfinished tetralogy. Both concern marriage attained through unatoned sin, maintained despite suspicion and recrimination, resolved at last by death. But in Kristin Lavransdatter the heroine, for such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vikings on Land | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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