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...others say that the terrorist attacks have them questioning some of life's basic decisions, some temporarily - "I've buckled down financially and I've put off buying a flat," says London lawyer Victoria Froud - and others perhaps for some time to come. "I would not want to [bring] children into a world where people are continuously fighting each other," says 23-year-old Berliner Nada Todorovic. Explains Prague resident Alena Svobodova, a 57-year-old retired opera producer: "I have realized that any long-term planning is pointless because you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeking Answers Where None Exists | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...Kermit. No Bert and Ernie. Sam the Nixonian eagle and Grover, with his perpetually pubescent voice, are elsewhere. This movie is serious: Jim Henson's foray into the art, dammit, of puppetry. With the help of Star Wars Producer Gary Kurtz, Faeries Artist Brian Froud, fellow Muppeteer Frank Oz and $26 million, Henson has devised a luxuriantly original fantasy world as dark as the magic crystal totem at its center. The setting is "another world, another time, in the Age of Wonder." A war between the benevolent Mystics (who look like shaggy-dog anteaters) and the evil Skeksis (pustular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Magical, Mystical Muppet Tour | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...Faeries, Froud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...Faeries, Froud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

Readers of last year's Gnomes certainly found this to be true. That book, also published by Abrams, immediately hopped to the bestseller list, where it has shown remarkable staying power. This lively sequel obviously hopes to re-Ipeat the gnomic phenomenon. g Froud and Lee concentrate mainly on the folklore of the British land Emerald isles, though they note that nearly every culture has its appropriate Third World of mischievous wee folk. A Celtic bumpkin can be enticed by his loccal wood spirits into a jigathon that makes years seem like minutes. In America, a Catskill rube glike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Enchanted Circle | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

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