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What does this grand package cost? A whopping $180. Which, the nice mechanical voice in the touch-tone maze says, is just 18 cents a minute. And you can pay in five easy credit installments. And hey, if you order now, they will even throw in a free NBC highlights video...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: A New Year's Resolution | 1/10/1992 | See Source »

Within minutes, Pearl Harbor was pandemonium: explosions, screams, tearing steel, the rattle of machine guns, smoke, fire, bugles sounding, the whine of diving airplanes, more explosions, more screams. With Battleship Row afire, Fuchida's bombers circled over the maze of Pearl Harbor's docks and piers, striking again and again at the cruisers and destroyers and supply ships harbored there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day of Infamy | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...line," wrote Paul Klee back in the days of the Bauhaus, "likes to go for a walk." This is true of Marden's paintings, which at first sight seem to consist of nothing but line, moving across the surface in an improvised way full of checks, turnings, erasures -- a maze making itself. The nature of the line is intimately involved with the tool Marden uses, which is in effect the ailanthus twig writ large: a long-handled brush with flitchlike bristles, floppy rather than stiff, whose ramblings convey an air of reflective uncertainty. Not for Marden the forceful calligraphic rush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lines That Go for a Walk | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

...learn spatial concepts -- in and out, over and around -- by crawling in a padded plastic turtle shell or sinking into a quicksand of colorful balls and learning to control the multicolored plastic objects. Kids ages 4 to 6 climb a padded "Swiss-cheese mountain" or creep through a maze of blue, fuchsia and yellow tunnels. Youngsters up to 12 balance on a rope walk or on a webbed "bean field," a bouncy surface with punching bags that hang above it within a child's grasp. A nearby concession offers turkey dogs, pizza, and carrot and celery sticks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old-Fashioned Play -- for Pay | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

Although a maze of administration and program planning occupies most her time these days, Mackay-Smith says what she really likes to do is personally work with students who are adjusting to college life...

Author: By Michele F. Forman, | Title: The FIRST Year for the First-YEAR Dean | 9/25/1991 | See Source »

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