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...show, of course. His voice - shifting easily from waggishness to bristling sarcasm to weighty understatement - is so dynamic that it ultimately doesn't matter whether he is using it in the service of fact or fiction. De Monfreid was at once a wild man and a philosophe, whose tender soliloquies on the joys of an unfettered life at sea, with nothing but the naked stars above, retain an immense power to seduce. While Hashish may be an acutely self-conscious literary artifact, it is also a singular self-portrait of a defiant spirit, who spurned "the slavery of some dreary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Man of the Sea | 1/23/2008 | See Source »

...notes you see here, collected from people all over the country, offer a glimpse of something we seldom see: an honest record of life's most candid, emotional moments. The fascination in reading them isn't just voyeurism. Sample someone else's tender sentiments, and it's hard not to recall your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love Letters | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...inserted into a womb and gestated normally. Result: clones with the same tender meat or premium milk. Only their offspring are killed?the clones themselves are too expensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefing | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...eccentricities to a life of temerity and scandal. Beauvoir inspired millions of women through conferences on her magnum opus, The Second Sex. Her encyclopedic letters to Sartre shaped his thought on existentialism, while her fiction earned global acclaim. And away from the public eye, headstrong Simone hid a surprisingly tender woman. To her beloved in Chicago, the anti-chauvinist crusader sent adoring letters that sometimes smacked of anti-feminist submission. And Beauvoir always kept her body to herself: she hid her hair under a turban, her legs in flowing mismatched skirts, her aging chest in collared blouses. Should we respect...

Author: By Alice J Gissinger | Title: On a Beau Voir Beauvoir | 1/14/2008 | See Source »

...then return to lead the party. Zidari was openly protective of his son during the press conference, at one point saying that he, not Bilawal, would answer all questions because while the young man may be the head of one of Pakistan's biggest parties he was "of a tender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Bhutto in Pakistan | 12/30/2007 | See Source »

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