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...first, many thought the darkness came from within. A middle-aged executive who had been playing a too-vigorous game of basketball wondered if the fading light before his eyes signaled a massive coronary...Scores concluded that, like latter-day Mrs. O'Learys, they were personally to blame for the blackout. After trimming the ends of some loose wires in readiness for the house painters next day, a Manhattan housewife saw the whole city go black and gasped: "What have I done now?" A small boy in Conway, N.H., whacked a telephone pole with a stick, saw night descend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: 38 Years Ago In Time | 8/25/2003 | See Source »

...comedian" Mitch Silpa on Carol Burnett's Tarzan yell: "Her Tarzan yell was great.") But you could argue, say, that the mainstream success of Cheech and Chong's drug comedy Up in Smoke, which VH1 lauds but IFC ignores, says more about the '70s' anything-goes Zeitgeist than McCabe & Mrs. Miller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Those Other '70s Shows | 8/18/2003 | See Source »

...memories as well. I won the counselors’ crazy dive contest, and watched two dozen off-key 8-year-old girls sing Simon and Garfunkel’s “Feelin’ Groovy.” I recommended that Lily read The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, and the very next day she said she’d gotten it from the library, read it and loved it. I told her that I was an avid reader—just like her—when I was younger. But after two summers of blissful...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, | Title: Crossing the Internship Line | 7/25/2003 | See Source »

...fact these characters are not at all what they seem: Betty is in love with strapping family friend Harry Bagley; Clive suffers from a perpetual erection caused and occasionally cured by their live-in guest Mrs. Saunders; their young son Eddy (played by female actor Sasha G. Weiss ’05) wants to be a girl and is also in love with Bagley; their black servant Joshua (played by white actor John Dewis) wants to be white; their nursemaid Ellen (Bonnie-Kathleen Discepolo) wants to be Betty’s lover; and finally, Bagley is himself gay, fools around...

Author: By Michelle Chun, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Review: Cloud 9 | 7/25/2003 | See Source »

TRANS FAT: 4 grams SATURATED FAT: 3 g Mrs. Smith's 9-in. apple pie (frozen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fessing Up to Fats | 7/21/2003 | See Source »

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