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...take revenge on some threatening situation, if not the one that might have been uppermost in people's minds. Fictional heroes of the period may have offered similar distractions, functioning as little "bombs" in their own right. McMurphy of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Yossarian of Joseph Heller's Catch-22 were at war with the world, and both nuked the societies that sought to contain them. One took on the scientists, the other the military: a one-two punch for the common man. Perhaps these explosions were not diversions after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the People Saw: A Vision of Ourselves | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

Reagan's study beside his bedroom is the focus of his healing. With fresh flowers and family pictures, it is the nest that the President taiks about. "I'm a picture freak," says the First Lady. She brought some of the photographs to the hospital, then took them back home. She updates them frequently. "But the pictures taken at the hospital--I think I'll just put them away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Conversation with Ronald Reagan | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...whole raft of digestive disorders. What they don't warn you about is the extreme paranoia that sets in about the potential threat to your fetus from everything you eat, drink, breathe, wear or even think about. Forget alcohol, cigarettes and Valium. When a woman is on the nest, the inadvertent ingestion of cheese, fish, undercooked meat or unfiltered tap water is enough to provoke a shrieking phone call to the poison-control hotline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earth Mothers on Patrol | 4/10/2005 | See Source »

When Inge Gabel of North Tonawanda, N.Y., watched her son Matthew disappear through the airport gate for a year abroad before college, she felt desolate. Her daughter was long gone, and now Matthew was also leaving. But her nest wasn't quite empty. Michael, 17, a recently arrived exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Full House Again | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

...Schuyler O. Mann ’05’s love nest is inconspicuous in leopard print. And that’s just the sheets: As a sophomore, Mann constructed a loft, ladder, and queen-sized bed frame from scratch to give him and his roommate more space. Eventually, the ladder thing got old. Today, his room in Claverly features the same wooden bed frame—now sawed in half so that it sits on the floor. He’s added an air mattress to go along with the leopard print sheets, which were, he admits, a gift...

Author: By Diane M. Nguyen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beds That Aren’t Just For Sleeping | 2/10/2005 | See Source »

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