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For a cover story in 1969, she interviewed Vladimir Nabokov in the Swiss hotel where he lived. Her description of the Winter Dining Room there was an early example of her keen eye: "a smallish chamber in the hotel basement, which, despite lavish importation of daffodils and red tulips, is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: Jun. 30, 1997 | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

I thought that I would take the time to go through each of the five brilliant suggestions provided to students just so I could outline how helpful they really have been in creating the new way in which I will walk down the street and carry myself through this frightful...

Author: By Nancy RAINE Reyes, | Title: Those Annoying, Useless Safety Tips | 11/2/1996 | See Source »

The trouble is that Harry, bribed and bludgeoned into cooperation, has no idea what he has to sell or what Osnard and his superiors back in London want to purchase. So Osnard drops clues that he picked up from his boss Scottie Luxmore before being posted, on his maiden spying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: A MAN, A PLAN, A CANAL | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

At a low ebb he receives a phone call inviting him to a dinner party in London being given by a wealthy American for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Theroux accepts and then, on the day of the occasion, conceives the idea that the Queen can somehow cure his malaise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: JUST THE FACTS (MAYBE...) | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

PARTICLE SLEUTHS When Wolfgang Pauli first proposed the existence of the neutrino in 1930, he labeled his hypothetical particle "a frightful thing." The neutrino would neatly explain a tiny energy imbalance in certain nuclear reactions, but it would also be so ethereal that the average neutrino could zip through a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OF OZONE AND FRUIT FLIES | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

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