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...saying these things. It is for others to pile up the extravagant adjectives ("sensitive, warm, witty, vibrant, successful, handsome, accomplished, incredibly beautiful, cerebral and sultry") while we stand demurely by. But someone has to do it. One competes for attention. One must advertise. One must chum the waters and bait the hook, and go trolling for love and laughter, for caring and sharing, for long walks and quiet talks, for Bach and brie. Nonsmokers only. Photo a must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Advertisements for Oneself | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...later that threat became reality when two car bombs blew up in predominantly Muslim West Beirut. The next day the explosion of a small stick of dynamite tossed from a passing car lured curious people into Saddun Square in the northern port of Tripoli. The dynamite charge was deadly bait; a booby- trapped car in the square exploded, killing 45 and wounding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East a Vengeful Frenzy of Death | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...anyone in the nation's newsrooms stopped to wonder whether U.S. journalists weren't seizing the bait in a colossal, sinister trap, their voices were lost in the din. The feeding frenzy had begun...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrat, | Title: Just the Facts | 6/23/1985 | See Source »

...houses, the bait shops and car lots of Baltimore's back streets, jobs are identities; unemployment strips souls down to their working parts. Among the city's new office buildings, Red views another America that "had been pushing me and my friends all along, and we had been so caught up in just staying alive, that we had never once pushed back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Line Red Baker | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

...tenderness that develops between Lauren and a client, an English lord who carries some diplomatic post. But the sense of imminent doom that hovers over the narrative is finally realized when it turns out that the people who set Lauren up with Lord Bullbeck wanted to use her as bait to trap the man. Theroux concludes the story with a rush of abductions, escapes, and assassinations more confusing than exciting...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: Half-Baked | 3/5/1985 | See Source »

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