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Diana spends as much time as she can with the children. She often plays with the boys in the morning in the walled garden at Kensington Palace, where there is a sandbox and a swing. Charles, who has less time, is far warmer with his children than his father was with him. (William calls him Daddy; Charles called his father Papa.) Recently Diana, concerned that she and Charles would be late for an appointment, found him in the bathtub with Wills (as William is known in the family), splashing about and having a jolly old time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Prince and His Princess Arrive: Charles and Di | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

Nature should have told him that when he heads south from Alaska during his herd's annual autumn migration to warmer water, he has to bear right at San Francisco. Instead, the 40-ton, 40-ft. humpback whale turned left and headed inland under the Golden Gate Bridge. For more than a week he has been swimming aimlessly in the shallow Sacramento River delta 40 miles northeast of San Francisco, a freshwater environment that eventually may kill the giant saltwater mammal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost Leviathan | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...that there are no parrots in Madame Bovary. A chapter contains contrasting chronologies, one of the author's public career and honors, the other of his failures and the early deaths of many of his family and close friends. By the adroit use of such detail, Barnes builds a warmer personality for the novelist than his glacial public image. Flaubert's stiff shyness and pride, his solitary stance in life and self-described bearishness become signs of human vulnerability rather than the armor of an artist against the distractions of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pleasures of Merely Circulating Flaubert's Parrot | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

Both of these lassies happen to be wearing leggings, a hangover from the Flashdance craze. Warmer than stockings and twice as uncomfortable, these calfhugging gifts from the great God of Lycra will be sneaking into the panty drawers of the same people who own a spectrum full of Danskins...

Author: By Charles M. Sneid, | Title: Fun, Sun and Dumb--This Spring's New Looks | 3/19/1985 | See Source »

...refrain echoing around John's Place, where retired farmers with bits of fingers and hands lost to farm machinery and ears warmed by highly idiosyncratic Minnesota caps play whist and pinochle all the wintry days and repeat as an incantation: "One thing for sure, it's going to be warmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Minnesota: Birthday Bash for a Native Son | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

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