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...friends loved it," says Lowey Luttway, 37, who left her TV job when her boy was born 2 1/2 years ago. "But store owners were on the fence. It didn't blow them away." Eventually, she convinced Babies "R" Us to order the smock, and she has since recouped her initial $25,000 investment. But it's her second invention, the StrollerStand, a kickstand for strollers, that Lowey Luttway, now the mother of two, thinks will be a big success. "If you've ever pushed an umbrella stroller packed with shopping bags, you know the minute you take your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Mothers of Invention | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

Also, you may want to wear a smock, for undoubtedly someone will spill on you. (Don't get annoyed, you'll do it to someone else later). Yet, it is precisely at this point that you realize how unpleasantly crowded it is and how you wish you had never come...

Author: By Erica S. Schacter, | Title: Kill the Grille's Monopoly | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

...Sheldon was constantly wearing his doctor's smock as if he were coming out of the laboratory and called everyone 'Doctor' for reasons unknown," Sample says...

Author: By Curtis R. Chong, | Title: POSING FOR POSTURE | 3/18/1995 | See Source »

...bring the prisoners out," Chong-yi said Car after car, motorcycle after motorcycle drove past, us. Finally, a tall, open-bed truck drove past, lined on all four sides by helmeted police, equipped with machine guns. A skinny man, hair shorn to the scalp and clothed in a black smock, stood in the front, right behind the truck cab. He wore a sign printed with four characters, around his neck. "Gu Yi Sha Ren--Willfully killed a man," Chong-yi said, "He's going to be executed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: My Gang of Twelve | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

Mainly (though some panels are weaker than others) the style gives the pictures an infrangible gravity, as in No. 57, The Female Worker Was Also One of the Last Groups to Leave the South, with its single figure of a laundress in a white smock, stirring a vat of fabrics -- blue, black, yellow, pink -- with her pole: a dense and well-locked composition, suggesting the permanence and resistance that form one of the underlying themes of Lawrence's great series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stanzas From a Black Epic | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

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