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...record of Government red ink in American history," charged House Speaker Tip O'Neill. "It is Reagan's recession, the runaway Reagan military budget and the Reagan tax breaks forthe wealthy that are creating the Reagan red ink." House Majority Leader James Wright called Reagan "the biggest alibi artist ever to serve in the White House." Such barbs led Deputy White House Press Secretary Larry Speakes to say cuttingly, "Those guys are taking to flights of partisan fantasy lately. I don't know whether it has to do with age or with the fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Into the Trenches | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

...this farce that mocks the English aristocratic culture of the 1890's, the central character Algernon (James Finnegan) has invented a sick younger brother, Bunburry, as an alibi for his many trips to the country. His friend, John Worthing (Henry Woronicz) has a similar stratagem: he is Ernest in town and Jack in the country. The drama focuses on the confusion engendered by these men's double identities when they meet their lovers-to-be--who both insist that their husbands be named Ernest...

Author: By Andrea Fastenberg, | Title: Much Too Wilde | 4/27/1983 | See Source »

...lived up to the various desiderata of rolling back Soviet forces and allowing the U.S. to surge forward with its rearmament-there would still be reason for wariness about signing such a thing. Arms control inevitably induces a naive giddiness among Americans about the superpower relationship; it provides an alibi for not spending enough on defense. In that sense, arms control is ipso facto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing for the Future | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...time, the Kenyan aristocrats closed ranks to protect one of their own, though most suspected Broughton of the crime. A friend gave him an alibi. Diana hired a brilliant defense lawyer from South Africa. After Broughton was acquitted of the murder, he received a cable from the Earl of Carnarvon and Montgomery (HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS ON WINNING A NECK CLEVERLY), and was invited to recuperate from the trial at the palace of the Maharajah of Jhopur. Still, the smell persisted. Thirty years after the crime, Fox persuaded three people to talk about the murder confessions Broughton had made to them before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Happy Valley | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

...money and says he will now carry out his assignment. Reports that the gunman met with a suspected Bulgarian agent at a small hotel in Rome to plot the murder of Polish Labor Leader Lech Walesa. Word that a key witness recants her testimony and thus threatens the alibi of the Bulgarian, who issues a denial that he aided the Turk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: New Pieces for the Puzzle | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

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