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...especially hard. How can I...Oh, boy. I first saw her as a young social worker. I had a job--it wasn't WPA, but it was governmental, part-time stuff at an agency. I spot this girl in a blue smock. I notice that people are always coming to her. I don't mean just clients; I mean colleagues as well. We got married, and she was involved in everything. People--men and women--all seemed to gravitate to her. When she entered a room, it was like she danced the room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Book of Life | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

...mile train trip to Moscow by North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il. It was a bizarre spectacle - Kim traveled across Russia's far east on a train that included 21 Japanese-made armored carriages, with darkened windows, and then emerged for Soviet-style welcomes dressed in a black smock with sunglasses and his bouffant hairdo. He looked like a visiting Hollywood director, being welcomed by hundreds of Russian soldiers, and officials making speeches professing mutual friendship that sounded like they could have been written in 1975. The spectacle left even many Russian foreign policy experts gaping in disbelief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: N. Korean Crashes Condi's Party | 7/27/2001 | See Source »

Mondrian teeters on the edge of abstraction, with recognizable shapes but that have no apparent form. Though he painted in a smock and tie, he was untraditional in every way—he was the first to paint on a horizontal plane, carefully constructing his paintings on a table...

Author: By Nicole B. Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mondrian at the Fogg | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...circuit boards like dentists extracting little metal teeth. Down the hall, a jumble of bright green motherboards spills out onto a conveyor belt headed toward a shredder that will rip them to cracker-size pieces of plastic. And around the corner, a clean-cut guy in a black work smock takes a big hammer and smashes one hard drive after another before tossing them into a huge bin marked ALUMINUM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How do you Junk your Computer? | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...Marley's Legend and a Blues Brothers poster b) A vomit smock c) A laptop computer d) A J. Crew barn jacket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Oct. 30, 2000 | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

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