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...broken VCR or answering machine is available, grab it. Soviet customs agents won't tax defective luxury items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And P.S.: Don't Knock Gorbachev | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

...cartoon, unlike an editorial, cannot explore a topic in detail. Limited by space, a cartoonist must grab the reader's attention, hook the reader's imagination, impress a message immediately. In a cartoon, "the message being conveyed usually is not essentially different from those expounded in newspaper opinion columns," says William Thomas, editor and executive vice president of the Los Angeles Times. But as Thomas recognizes, "the manner of conveyance is different--profoundly different...

Author: By Oliver C. Chin, | Title: A Cartoonist's Final Thoughts | 5/22/1991 | See Source »

Today's job market is a far cry from that available in the mid-1980s, when--at least according to legend--young graduates flocked to Wall Street or Washington D.C. to grab jobs waiting to be taken...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: For Harvard Undergraduates Too, The Recession Is Taking Its Toll | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

...museum rather than that of a shop. It has even hired a guard to stand at the entrance to the room in which Salle's six new paintings are displayed, presumably in case some collector from the bottom of the waiting list is seized by the impulse to grab one of these tallowy objects from the wall and make a run for it. Ten minutes into the show, your heart goes out to that guard. Eight hours a day, five days a week, of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Exhibit B in The Dud Museum | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

...Grab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Catfish That Oinks . . . | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

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