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In the last days of a steamy summer, as pity runs thin, a backlash against beggars is smoldering across the country. Its chief spokesman is New York Mayor Ed Koch, who is urging people to help banish the panhandlers by refusing to give them anything. Koch avers that "many people...
More of such moxie is in order. Resignation exacts as heavy a toll on the road to old age as disease or poor habits, warn gerontologists, who stress the importance of cultivating new interests and staying mentally engaged. That view is shared by no less an authority than Comedian George...
He now avers that more than just "explicitly political speech" is protected by the First Amendment (though the reasoning and interpretive methods he used in reaching that conclusion again were wholly inconsistent with his stated judicial philosophy.)
Aliens reveals only flashes of Weaver's most distinctive gifts, but it has given her a powerful screen personality in a potential hit film. As Peter Weir, the Australian director of Living Dangerously, avers, "She is one of the few women who can light the screen up. I will be...
No bones about it. Andrew Wyeth's realism has never been more clinical. Four years ago, he decided to celebrate his wife's 60th birthday by giving her a self-portrait. "I had just had a hip operation," he says, "and got interested in X rays." He ordered up one...