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Most journalists hoping to interview a rock star must first surmount a human barricade of dyspeptic press agents, surly managers and beefy bodyguards. Not Monaco's Princess Stephanie, who recently added the quill to a quiver of part-time professions that include swimsuit designer, model and singer (her debut album, Besoin (Need), is a hit in Europe and will be released in the U.S. next year). It seems that the dilettante Princess was smitten with Rod Stewart at a show during his latest tour and, after a photo shoot that will appear in the December issue of the American Elle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 24, 1986 | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

...Quill; 188 pages...

Author: By Paull E. Hejinian, | Title: A Deputy Gone Mad | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...will begin hooking into the system, enabling them to check a doctor's record in a matter of minutes and crack down on would-be border skippers. The data will also be made available to the military medical system and hospitals. Says Galusha: "We've gone from the turkey quill and laborious manual searches to state of the art in the past two years. The net is tightening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Weeding Out the Incompetents | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

According to Angelo De Angelis, sales manager of Zia Dora, Gerardo di Nola's U.S. importer, the five most popular shapes are spaghetti, the ridged quill- shaped penne, linguine, the fine angel's hair capelli d'angelo and short, mixed pasta shapes used in minestrone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Pasta: a Matter of Form | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...first 340 years of Harvard College's existence—from the quill and ink-well to the ball-point pen—ownership of the means of production has been within the reach of all students. When this equality was threatened by the typewriter, a production tool beyond the means of some students, the University installed typewriters in the libraries. Those who were unable to purchase typewriters could still have access to them and not be unfairly disadvantaged in grading...

Author: By Robert A. Katz | Title: Macintosh Manifesto | 10/29/1985 | See Source »

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