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...principal character of the new novel. Rob Wyatt, a 32-year-old lawyer, is not even sure that he wants to hear his own monologues. He sees himself as a philosophical bigamist wedded to two perspectives: "Robert the Serious, a believer; also Rob the Ironic, jokester and cynic." The storm rearranges the rhetoric, leaving Rob the Observer, who drops out of his law firm to live at the beach with his dog Speedo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imagining Men | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

Here are examples of what passes these days for communication across the color line: In Tamarac, Fla., a 20-year-old black cook was questioned by police for 45 minutes after officials at the bank where he wanted to open an account reported that he planned to rob it. In New York City a rumor that a soft drink sold in poor neighborhoods had been secretly manufactured by the Ku Klux Klan to make blacks sterile worked so well that sales plummeted 70%. And a University of Chicago survey of racial attitudes found that 3 out of 4 whites believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quota Quagmire | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

...quirky small town that gained a cult following. The latest destination for fans of the outlandish and the In-jokish on TV is the village of Cicely, hard by the Arctic Circle in the state of Alaska. Among the town's 500 inhabitants is one reluctant interloper: Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow), a New York City native who has been forced to move there as the sole doctor in order to fulfill his medical-school scholarship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Little Too Flaky in Alaska | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

Senior Don Green replaced Pinkerton, and filled in admirably. But the team's other kickers, Rob Santos and Rich Winekur, were not playing Wednesday, and Green missed the conversion...

Author: By John B. Roberts, | Title: M. Ruggers Crush Holy Cross, 22-4 | 4/26/1991 | See Source »

...Chair Rob Rhew everywhere I went. And other Undergraduate Council members were floating around. But ordinary folks like you and me...well, let's just say we were a rare breed...

Author: By Jason M. Solomon, | Title: Toward a Better Fling | 4/24/1991 | See Source »

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