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...Angeles. An anthropology grad student at UCLA, Castaneda published The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge in 1968, the first of many accounts of his apprenticeship to Mexican shaman Don Juan. Readers soaked the books up, even though critics thought Don Juan was just a figment of an active imagination that also manifested itself when the author dispensed false biographical details about himself. The reclusive Castaneda steadfastly refused to be photographed: for a TIME cover article in 1973, he consented only to tightly cropped close-ups of his hands and eyes...
While it's hardly new to suggest that Superwoman was never anything more than a figment of the 1980s imagination, McKenna kicks the debate into the '90s with her exploration of the central place work occupies in women's lives. Her survey of 1,200 upscale boomers finds that once a woman makes a commitment to work, regardless of whether it's driven by financial or psychological incentives, work becomes essential to her identity. Thus, when competing claims on time force a reassessment, the issue for most women isn't whether to keep working; it's how to balance work...
...have this strange memory that after 1985, but before the introduction of the handheld Newton in 1993, Apple had some glorious years with desktop publishing, multimedia Macs, PowerBooks, educational Macs, the marketing campaign of the decade and the No. 1-selling personal computer worldwide. Guess it was just a figment of my imagination. JOHN SCULLEY New York City
...long-running liaison with supersvelte supermodel Kate Moss and for his proprietorship of the menacingly named Viper Room, the determinedly grungy rock club on Sunset Blvd. outside of which River Phoenix succumbed to a final overdose. What the public does not know is that this character is largely the figment of our gossip-debased collective unconscious...
Supporters argue rightly that the money would go where it was intended, building roads and upgrading airports. But the supposedly untapped funds are actually an accounting figment. Using them would increase the deficit or force greater cuts in other programs. Budget Committee chairman John Kasich and Appropriations chairman Bob Livingston are vehemently opposed. Attempts by Newt Gingrich to reconcile them and Shuster have come to naught. Meanwhile, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan broke with his custom of staying neutral to advise against passage...