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McIntosh describes an occasion when he returned to the room to discover Kaczynski lounging on the sofa in the common room. "As soon as he noticed I had come back, he sneaked back to his room," McIntosh says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Loner REMEMBERED | 4/6/1996 | See Source »

...culture gets the kind of passive aggression that it needs. In the gaudier U.S., passive aggression is the ideal style of a television culture, of an overstimulated but vicarious race: postindustrial sofa-spuds whose contradictory cultural life swoops between hypothetical freedom and commercial manipulation. TV is the Great Satan of passive aggression: sedentary overhype...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUERRILLAS IN OUR MIDST | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

...maladies; it is our life-style and our attitude toward food and eating. The answer is not to take the fat out of the fatty foods we eat but to take the fat out of our diets by selecting naturally low-fat foods and then to get off the sofa and start practicing self-control! CHRISTOPHER S. ROBINSON Seaside, California Via E-mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 29, 1996 | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

...read the thick contract from their health plan, Health Net of Woodland Hills, California. Like most Americans enrolled in such plans, the couple had never studied the document. Now, however, the specifics had become a matter of vital interest. "Good news," Alan announced from his end of the family sofa in Murietta, California. "It's covered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICAL CARE: THE SOUL OF AN HMO | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

...audience for their shows--and thus the potential ad revenue. CBS senior vice president Martin Franks points out, moreover, that the V chip ignores the fact that most homes have more than one TV, and parents surely won't replace every one. "Short of chaining the children to the sofa in the room in which the V-chip-equipped set is located, I don't see how this proposal is going to work," he says. Franks also fears that broadcasters will be barraged by groups with their own definition of objectionable content; one right-to-life group, he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: LOCKING OUT VIOLENCE | 7/24/1995 | See Source »

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