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The first set went down to the wire, as Engel and Nastase each had breaks. With the score 4-4, Engel broke Nastase's serve again and held serve to win the set. After the set, Nastase rubbed his rotund belly and looked upward.

Author: By Chris W. Sanzone, | Title: Nastase Falls in Women's Tennis Benefit | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

The word from the White House is that Bush is irritated about being handed such an item of conspicuous consumption while he skimps on funds for Eastern Europe, education and the drug war. The behemoth jet towers six stories and may have crossed the line of common political sense. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A $650 Million Flying Palace | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

In addition to counting heads with helmets on them and inventorying the enemy's hardware, the American arithmetic of fear has always factored in an ideological multiplier. Here was a political system that, seen from the outside, seemed to have a flat belly, a thick neck, big biceps and plenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rethinking The Red Menace | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

He needs no pillow to pad his belly, no rouge to redden his cheeks. And even in the heated subway, a morning's worth of icicles make his department-store beard seem real to the touch.

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: There is No Snow in Boston | 12/15/1989 | See Source »

When Bush climbed aboard his jet for this odyssey, he was in the hands of the U.S. Air Force. The President's three Marine helicopters had been ferried in the belly of an Air Force transport and were waiting for him on the Malta ramps. From there the machines whirled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: The Presidency: Talk of Peace, Tools of War | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

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