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...Nefzawi, recommended sparrow's ! tongue and, at bedtime, a glassful of honey, 20 almonds and 100 grains of the pine tree. Indian experts prescribed a powder made from the bones of a peacock. Europeans in the Middle Ages preferred the testes or urine of all sorts of animals. One Frenchman favored the flesh of a crocodile ground into powder and mixed with sweet wine ("Works miracles," he promised). Some Europeans taught that eating an apple that had been soaked in the sweat of your lover's armpit was a sure means of seduction -- provided, of course, that you had prior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Aphrodite Was No Lady | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...should do the same as I'm doing," Anderson says, trying to improve the Frenchman's chances. At midnight they come and take Anderson away. Two hours later, Fontaine learns that it is he who is being freed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hostages The Lost Life Of Terry Anderson | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

ALTHOUGH Alexis de Tocqueville wrote his famous treatise questioning democracy's ability to promote an effective national security policy more than a century ago, the questions that the Frenchman so presciently raised continue to haunt...

Author: By Neil A. Cooper, | Title: Holding Ollie Accountable | 3/7/1989 | See Source »

...hype have long been partners; there must have been some prehistoric Frenchman urging his fellows to catch the cave paintings at Lascaux. But movies, as the first mechanical art form, have always churned on assembly-line publicity. With the mid-'70s success of People magazine, and later + Entertainment Tonight, the celebrity industry went high tech and high gear. Nearly every hour of the TV day, from Today and Good Morning America through Oprah and Donahue to Carson and Nightwatch, is filled with show-biz interviews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Does This Film Seem Familiar? | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...17th century the classical world was the locus of ideal beauty, but how did a Frenchman enter it? A writer could read Vergil without leaving Paris, but a painter had to go to Rome. There, ancient sculpture and architecture abounded; from them, antiquity could be reimagined. It was the strength of the reimagining, not just its archaeological correctness, that counted. Poussin's main regular job during his Roman years was drawing records of ancient sculpture for a rich antiquary and scholar named Cassiano dal Pozzo. This gave him excellent access to collections, and the time to develop the repertoire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Classicist Who Burned with Inner Fire | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

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