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Austin, a specialty-paper salesman from Chicago, wants to stay married to the perceptive and unusually attractive Barbara while vigorously pursuing a dour and uncompliant Parisian named Josephine. Furious, Barbara refers to her straying mate as what could euphemistically be called the lowest part of the digestive system. Josephine calls her suitor a damned fool after he takes her young son to a park without permission. Unattended, little Leo wanders off and is stripped by older boys. Austin's humiliation is compounded by newspaper accounts alleging that he might be a child molester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: ON THE ROAD WITH DORIS | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

...their eyes from left to right in an almost-reflexive attempt to gauge the status of the person next to them. There are no formal, verbalized rules of etiquette, just a silent code of conduct governing the vast unknown: thou shall not make accidental physical contact with thy seat mate; thou shall not speak; thou shall not meet another's gaze. To do any of the aforementioned would immediately render one "psycho," society's swift condemnation on deviation...

Author: By Abby Y. Fung, | Title: "T" -time Etiquette | 6/27/1997 | See Source »

...take some chances," Drudge admits. But he boasts that his items are "80% accurate"--counting his (correct) prediction of Bob Dole's running mate and his (apparently inaccurate) report that Paula Jones saw a bald-eagle tattoo in Bill Clinton's crotch area. His brand of fast-and-loose journalism seems to work online, where getting it first often means more than getting it right. And why not? It's a fast-food medium, and increasingly savvy users are learning (thank you, Pierre Salinger) to take a fistful of salt with every byte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETLY NEWS: THE THRILL OF DRUDGE WORK | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

...Rawlins's victory did not come without a difficult battle. She narrowly beat out a field of 11 other candidates. Her running mate, Michael A. O'Mary '99, lost to rival Mark A. Price...

Author: By Peggy S. Chen, | Title: Undergraduate Council Reform Stagnates at Year's End | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

Elected as vice president along with running mate Robert M. Hyman '98 in the first campus-wide elections last April, Rawlins also had to face a challenging first semester in council leadership...

Author: By Peggy S. Chen, | Title: Undergraduate Council Reform Stagnates at Year's End | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

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