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...required more than an agile mind; it took time. Of course, times change. Two of fiction's newest detectives have the necessary brainpower: they're young (in their 30s) African-American professionals (a professor and a doctor). These women, however, are so upwardly mobile that they can barely pencil murder into their crammed calendars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder, They Wrote | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...advertisement is odd enough to be worth dissecting a little. Obviously it is rich in unintentional comedy. M.K. Gandhi, as the photograph itself demonstrates, was a passionate opponent of modernity and technology, preferring the pencil to the typewriter, the loincloth to the business suit, the plowed field to the belching manufactory. Had the word processor been invented in his lifetime, he would almost certainly have found it abhorrent. The very term word processor, with its overly technological ring, is unlikely to have found favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mohandas Gandhi | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...just barge in unannounced and wreak havoc. So rude! Not 1997 XF11, as the scientists so imaginatively named our space Kevorkian. It made a reservation. We were provided the exact date of arrival: Oct. 26, 2028. A Thursday. Gives you time to clear some space on your calendar, pencil in the appointment. Note to Self: Thursday--run amuck in sheer terror before being blown to smithereens along with everyone and everything I've ever known and loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Upside Of Doom | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

Hush is a guilty pleasure, like the soapoperas that so many people need to live. That being said, it's entirely safe to say that the only people who will see this movie are those who pencil in a TV movie once every month or so. This review is strictly for those people. The rest of the population, content with living their lives clinging to the fleeting solace of reality, should consider themselves warned...

Author: By Shatema A. Threadcraft, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wait for Re-runs of Southern Gothic Soap Opera | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

While other men in other lands were making 1934 history, the voters of the U.S. took pencil & paper on Nov. 6 and wrote their own ticket for Man of the Year. It was not a new ticket because they had picked Franklin Roosevelt as their Man of 1932 by electing him to the Presidency, but it was a different one. Two years ago a hundred million people looked to this cheerful, charming gentleman to do something in the greatest industrial crisis on record. This year they used their ballots again, not as a desperate hope but as a grateful reward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1929-1939 Despair | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

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