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Cheryl Pevehouse, 30, the wife of a physician in Columbia, S.C., and mother of three children, is a dedicated discounter who has saved as much as $5,300 on her grocery bills in a good year. She puts out a monthly newsletter called Market Wizard ("cash from trash") that goes to 132,000 subscribers. Like most other discounters, she is middle to upper-middle class. (Poorer consumers tend to go for the greater direct savings on lower-priced no-name brands.) As Janoyan puts it, "It feels like upper-middle-class poor to us. If it weren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Snipping Away at Inflation | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

...doubt about it: the man who created this pretty, poignant, funny scene is a wizard. The moment passes, of course; soon the little girls are grinning, trying to point their feet and watch their pals at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: To Tchaikovsky, a Rousing Tribute | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

...written his master's thesis at the College of William and Mary on nuclear weapons, and had twice been rejected for a job with the CIA, was merely trying to trade information with the Soviets in hopes of enhancing his self-image as a strategic weapons wizard. The case, said one investigator, is "bizarre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Titan Turnkey | 6/15/1981 | See Source »

White imagined Merlin as a wizard who lived backward, progressing from dotage to youth. It was yet another instance of literature anticipating life-as, for example, the life of Isaac Bashevis Singer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Province of Irony | 6/15/1981 | See Source »

...sure hand and the total recall may make readers wonder if Singer was ever a greenhorn. That he is a wizard, there can be no doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Province of Irony | 6/15/1981 | See Source »

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