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The next wave of anger hit her, as though she should have been content with her first one or two or three miracle babies rather than going on to mass-manufacture them. Maybe this is why she is vilified for having 14 children, while the Duggars, members of an Evangelical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calling a Truce on the Octuplets Mom | 2/9/2009 | See Source »

ELECTRONIC ART. MacPaint, which works on the Apple Macintosh, seems to have opened up a new artistic world on personal computers. Using only the Mac's palm-size mouse controller, the program gave chartmakers and would-be Picassos easy access to a variety of artist's tools, from an electronic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: The New Breeds of Software | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

Sir: Concerning your April 22 article on the naming of Ford Motor Co.'s new dream car, no mention was made of its specifications or design. However, if Ford is holding true to Detroit's trend of recent years, no one need have a "quiverful of literary prizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 13, 1957 | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

In October 1955 he began corresponding with Miss Marianne Moore, whose fragile images, often of animals, e.g., "A brass-green bird with grass-green throat," have won her the respect of the world and a quiverful of literary prizes for three long decades. Last week, in The New Yorker magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Ars Poetica | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

Britain's Anthony Eden calmly seconded Bidault's words. Then Vyacheslav Molotov took the floor. He started off with the discouraging demand that the Foreign Ministers first discuss an invitation to a conference to include Red China. While Eden made temples with his hands and Bidault toyed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERLIN: Making Mischief or Peace | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

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