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My snobbery toward housewifery is also coming back to haunt me in my personal relationships. When I was younger and my father got home late from work, the tension would mount during his impending arrival until he walked sheepishly through the door to meet his fate--my mother's wrath...

Author: By Corinne E. Funk, | Title: Becoming a Homemaker--Slowly | 6/28/1996 | See Source »

The closeness of the contest has thrown the Communist candidate onto the defensive. Last week Zyuganov headed for Siberia, shunning critics in the big cities for the reassuring applause of the "red and passionate" in the remote Far East. There he wins heady applause from his natural constituency of pensioners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE YELTSIN SURGE | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

As for predictions of impending devastation in the PC industry, Grove thinks it's unlikely. His basis for that judgment? The same organ that digests his special cereal. "When I first came to this country in the 1950s from Hungary, people were mesmerized by cars. That's the kind of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techwatch, Jun. 10, 1996 | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

Oddly enough, a day or two after I heard that the Internet was comparable to an abused Maytag, I was told about another impending technological disaster. "It never rains but it pours," my mother used to say--and she said that before the invention of even the plain-paper fax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: APOCALYPSE, NO? | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

In an effort to stave off the impending renovations, the committee met with Rudenstine and Knowles on February 5.

Author: By Jay S. Kimmelman, | Title: Union's Renovations Create Controversy | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

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