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Other coloring books might seem more interesting at first. Mythical Beasts Coloring Book contains drawings of monsters, always a popular subject for the pre-pre-pubescent set. The author seems knowledgable about his subject; perhaps he's even spent one too many years researching mythical beasts, judging from his text...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: The Coloring Books of the Boring Elite | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

Be careful of strangers and hurry home, says a mother to her daughter, knowing that the world is a frightful place but not wishing to swaddle a child in fear. Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Is It RAPE? | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

Hospital food is dreadful. Hospital bills are frightful. Yet they are nothing compared with the humiliation of the traditional hospital gown, an ill-fitting slice of flimsy fabric secured along the spine by shoelace-style ties that expose patients to drafts in the darnedest places. But the No Moon Co...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: No Butts About It | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

One sees premonitions of modernity, since 20th century sculptors drew on Mexican sources for inspiration -- Henry Moore's reclining women, for instance, derive partially from the powerful crankshaft rhythms of Yucatan Chacmool figures. But the best pieces here, such as the stone figure of a standard-bearer from Chichen Itza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Onward From Olmec: Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries, | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

Old-time Hollywood sometimes seems to have almost as many closeted skeletons as the Kremlin. Consider now the luxuriant scandal surrounding Paul Bern, an MGM producer who was found shot to death in 1932 shortly after his marriage to his prize star, Jean Harlow. A suicide note apologized for "the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shedunit DEADLY ILLUSIONS by Samuel Marx and Joyce Vanderveen | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

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