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EVERY YEAR, I swear I'm going to miss the Oscars. Then, no matter how hard I try, I can't resist sticking my finger back in the proverbial electrical socket. This year was no exception. The Indiana-Syracuse game ended about two and a half hours too early, and the lack of any suitable Hogan's Heroes reruns meant certain doom. My dial was irresistibly drawn over...

Author: By Eric A. Morris, | Title: Sentimental Favoritism | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...kill him. The 39-year-old murderer, looking scared, was strapped into the electric chair, electrodes fastened to his shaved head and shaved right leg. Superintendent Ralph Kemp counted to three, a volunteer executioner pushed a button, and 2,080 volts, 20 times the charge in a household socket, coursed through Stephens for two full minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running Out of Appeals | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

...mixture of utility and Middle American chic, there are gas barbecues and girdles, personal computers and auto-ignition analyzers, draperies, fake-fur coats, electric generators, two-stage oxyacetylene welding outfits, lingerie, swimsuits, exercise equipment, Franklin stoves, blood-pressure monitors, telephones, 718-piece mechanics' tool sets, portable drills and socket wrenches. Sears sells queen and worker bees, dairy and livestock equipment, horse blankets and saddles and, for $1,200, a pair of majestic swans to "transform your pond or lake into an enchanting, romantic setting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sear's Sizzling New Vitality | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

Rich Hassman, a computer-systems manager in the waste-management group, is taking apart some Unistrut metal framing with a socket wrench. "Right now," he says, "I'm thinking of using this as a base for a water bed. I like to make things. A friend of mine is building a 35-ft. steel ketch, and he turned me on to metal welding. So I got a Heliarc." A steel ketch? In New Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Mexico: High-Tech Junkyard | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...bigger. It would be futile to put a frame around The Coming Boom. The book is more like a sprawling by-the-numbers kit used to paint the dome of a new Renaissance chapel. There the enervated finger of post-industrial Adam is about to be plugged into the socket of divine science. One can even find a title for this vaulting masterpiece: CI. It stands for command, control, communications, computing/information and intelligence. Kahn is not too specific about command and control. His discussion of CI other components describes an information network that he believes should enable government and business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dr. Doomsday's Sunshine Scenario | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

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