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...voters, many of whom see themselves the same way. But Mickey Kantor, the high-gear manager of Mondale's California effort, asserts that his man will not lose the state, despite his Frostbelt starchiness. Says Kantor: "We're going to win here. The glitz won't bother Fritz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Wild Ride to the End | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

...Soviet Union out," exults David Balsiger, national executive director of the Ban the Soviets Coalition. "But we did it against great odds. We were responsible for them dropping out." Balsiger is like the rain maker who, after a downpour happens along, claims credit for it. Nevertheless, the buzz and bother stirred up by his group seemed to give credence to the security concerns that the Soviets used as an excuse for staying home. Peter Ueberroth, president of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, pulls no punches when he talks about Balsiger's organization. "I called them nutty," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: We Were Responsible | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

...news directors apparently have a different approach to those distant catastrophies in weird-sounding places. The standing commandment for this amorphous category is "just tell me the main stuff and don't bother with the particulars...

Author: By Paul L. Choi, | Title: Whither the Media? | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...According Le Beaver. Irwyn Applebaum captures the essence of the show for its millions of undying fans fawning tributes to television shows tend to be unsatisfying because there usually is little the author can add-we've seen all the same shows, the rest of us just didn't bother to take notes. But Applebaum does a much better than average job by letting the show do most of the talking. The best part of the book is the central section which consists of dialogue vignettes from the show's 234 episodes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beaverisms | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

...does not bother the three women that their satanic host acts and thinks like the piggiest of male chauvinists. Lunching with Sukie, Van Home feels "a surge of possessive pride in her beauty, her vital spirit. His. His toy." He runs them through some bizarre and degrading sexual hoops, but the playthings adore "our dear Darryl. Our leader. Our redeemer from Eastwick ennui." His ample house gives their new-found senses of identity room to burgeon: "In Van Home's realm they left their children behind and became children themselves." This is where the action is, Sukie muses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fruits of Blossoming Selfhood | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

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