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...playing Mr. Mom has meant more than learning the way to Toys R Us. They have discovered, somewhat to their surprise, the private joys of daily child rearing that women have always known. In the Yankelovich poll for TIME, 63% of 30- to 40-year-olds stated that "raising children is a main satisfaction in my life." Revering and caring for children has served as an antidote to some of the egocentric tendencies of the Me generation. "We were taught that we were the most important people in the world," says Columnist Greene, who became a father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Growing Pains At 40 | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...others. His romance with a teacher played by Lise Hilboldt, an actress whose plainness of manner amounts to a kind of self-cancellation, is dully conventional. And a subplot that involves them in an endlessly unfunny attempt to soothe the troubled spirit of Burgess's mad old mom is irrelevant and near to tasteless. She is played by Lillian Gish, and the movies' oldest pro clearly understands that she is trapped in Sweet Liberty's dreariest neighborhood. She does her brash best to break loose, but her efforts are more brave than successful. Doubtless her first auteur, D.W. Griffith, warned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Road of Good Intentions Sweet Liberty | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...were Playboy's readers, who have just made Shower the first popularly chosen Playmate of the Year, and the oldest one ever. So what do Daughters Mindy, 10, and Melanie, 7, think of their mother's new exposure? They found some technical faults with the pictures in May, says Mom. "But they loved the Playmate of the Year ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 12, 1986 | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

Davis said it was "a particularly sad thing" that school and college groups were cancelling planned tours abroad. His only reason for not recommending a trip would be concern that "Mom will be an anorexic wreck" from worrying...

Author: By Kenneth A. Gerber, | Title: Experts: Tourists Overreacting to Terrorist Threat | 5/7/1986 | See Source »

...contest of wills between Gaddafi and Washington. On the day after the raid, TIME Correspondent Sam Allis noticed that someone had scrawled a message on the circular rear end of a Sidewinder missile stored on the deck of the carrier America. The grim inscription: THIS IS FOR MOMAR'S MOM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Dead of the Night | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

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