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...campaigner, railing against everything from protectionist legislation to the Missouri Congressman's votes for Reaganomics. Similarly, Dukakis' most successful ad in the South was a depiction of an acrobatic Gephardt flip- flopping through midair. Now with his favorite debating foil reduced to Simonesque proportions, Dukakis is again adrift, a candidate without a straw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three-Way Gridlock | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

International issues--Central and South America, the Soviet Union and the Middle East--continue to haunt this administration and this country. Reagan's dealings with Iran left the United States adrift. Money--not morality--was Reagan's chief diplomatic weapon...

Author: By Michael D. Stankiewicz., | Title: Jesse Jackson | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

Although she thought she might want to be a writer, 18-year-old Tania Aebi was plying Manhattan's canyons as a bicycle messenger. Sensing that his daughter was adrift, Ernst Aebi presented her with an unusual choice: college tuition or a small boat she could sail around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sailing: A True Rite Of Passage | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...Adrift in his native city of Leningrad in 1969, the young poet had good reason to feel depressed. He had spent 18 months laboring on a state farm in the Arctic, convicted by a Soviet court of being a "social parasite." Released but still convinced that his mission on earth was to write rather than surrender his skills to the dictates of the state, he faced bleak prospects: the official campaign to discredit him had taken on undertones of anti- Semitism, and his work was being subjected to the annihilating silence of suppression. So he composed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Literature: Joseph Brodsky: Lyrics Of Loss | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

Education: In Topeka, the city of the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 school- desegregation ruling, the struggle to achieve racial balance goes on. Native Americans: Excluded from the Constitution, Indians are still adrift in their own land. Sexes: Supporters again push the era, while women's rights gain legal ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

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