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...that it turns issues into slogans. TV concentrates almost exclusively on confrontations, statement and counterstatement, all reduced to brief segments of video tape. TV also demands filmable ritual: the waving placards and red-white-and-blue streamers of the quadrennial conventions, celebrated with the ceremonial jollity of an Easter egg hunt perpetuated for children who have grown into sullen adolescence. When TV has finally crowned its Muppety candidates, it reaches for their purses. Of the $60 million in federal funds that Reagan and Carter spent to campaign against each other, more than half went to television. Overall, candidates for federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Reform the System | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...says. "I have no breasts, but by holding my body a certain way I can create a cleavage. You can create cheekbones or take a bump on your nose and make it disappear with makeup. " After twelve spongy hours, Dickinson went to her West Side Manhattan apartment to share egg rolls and wine with her boyfriend, who is also a model. Nowadays, models tend to bunk not with princes or playboys but with other practitioners of their trade ? makeup men, photographers' assistants, advertising tyros. Before retiring, Dickinson removed her makeup with mayonnaise, washed her face with yogurt and then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modeling the '80s Look: The Faces and Fees are Fabulous | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

...procedure can be used when a woman's fallopian tubes are blocked. Doctors remove an egg from the prospective mother, fertilize it with her husband's sperm outside the body, and then emplant the embryo in the woman's womb. Biggers said no more than four babies have been conceived and born using the method...

Author: By Janet F. Fifer, | Title: Test Tube Births Safe, Med School Doctor Says | 2/6/1981 | See Source »

...weighty and shapeless that it looked as if it had been hoisted out of 40 feet of water." She registers the sounds of dawn: "There were cries of birds, sharp and rudimentary, that stung like sparks or hail." And the look of dusk: "The sky glowed like a candled egg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Castaways | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

...researchers drew out the egg and sperm nuclei that were already in the black mouse's egg so that their genetic information could not influence the resulting clone. Next they cultured the cell in a solution of nutrients until it divided and grew into an early embryo, which was then inserted into the womb of a third mouse, this one white. The white mouse gave birth to a gray mouse, genetically identical to the original embryo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Closing In on Cloning | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

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