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...They have to be absolutely clear about what they mean by 'in lieu of tax payments,' " Vellucci said, adding, "the average working class resident doesn't even know what that means. He thinks the University is a bastard that is doing him in, and you can't blame...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Cambridge-Harvard: A Case of Indigestion | 2/24/1979 | See Source »

...quite manage the French trick of finding cuckoldry hilarious. The situation, at any rate, is satisfactorily ridiculous. Luigi (Marcello Mastroianni) is a wealthy wine merchant, an idealist and a writer of tracts on the equality of women. He is also a great philanderer, with mistresses and bastard children all around Italy. But what has that to do with idealism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: La Diff | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...site of the razed Regnum Marianum Church. With ladders, cables and acetylene torches, a group of workers cut through the metal knees and brought the old dictator crashing to the street. Hungarians hammered at the huge metal corpse. Said one wrecker: "I want a souvenir of this old bastard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: How We Got Here | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...played pretty well up until now. Then Brother Billy thought he would enlarge the script. First came an interview in Penthouse magazine in which the barefooted Billy called Charles Kirbo, the President's adviser, "about the dumbest bastard I ever met in my life" and labeled Hamilton Jordan, the top White House staff member, an "asshole." Some thought that Billy, who now makes about $300,000 a year by performing in public as the President's brother, crossed the line from being a plain, greedy slob into being an embarrassment to the presidency. Then last week came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Brother Billy Caper | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

Those Carter boys never learn. Jimmy's "adultery in my heart" interview in Playboy was the most notorious caper in his campaign, and now Billy has mouthed off to Penthouse about his brother's staff. Presidential Adviser Charles Kirbo, said Billy, was the "dumbest bastard I ever met in my life," while Press Secretary Jody Powell "would be better off running a farm in Vienna, Ga." To which Powell replied: "It would certainly put me in touch with a better class of people." In Billy's opinion, Chief White House Aide Hamilton Jordan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 15, 1979 | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

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