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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cleveland: Dennis Kucinich smiles like an altar boy and snarls like a truck driver-a potent combination in a city of energetic ethnics. Part Irish, part Croatian, standing 5 ft. 6 in. and looking even younger than he is, Democrat Kucinich is accused of going for the jugular even when he does not have to. He accused Republican Mayor Ralph Perk in the primary of selling out to business interests and neglecting the neighborhoods. Perk finished a poor third behind Kucinich and State Representative Feighan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Victory For the Middle | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

...That boy has known a passion more ferocious than any I have ever known throughout my life, and I envy him for it," Dysart declares to the audience, making an eloquent summary of the dilemma that the psychiatrist perceives as he approaches Strang's case. In the figure of the disturbed boy, Dysart has run up against a patient who matches his own forceful character, yet can identify Dysart's very unique weaknesses with all the insight of one of the psychiatrist's professional colleagues. Strang senses the sexual and emotional impotence of his putative healer, using his instinctive acumen...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: A Clash of Two Wills | 11/18/1977 | See Source »

...grows uncomfortable around the strange American. There is Comerade Hung, an agricultural specialist who has been sent down from the universities to help Tachai build up its orchards, and who isn't completely happy in his exile to the countryside. And there is Ch'eng-yuan, a small boy who befriended Schell...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: A Schell Of His Former Self | 11/15/1977 | See Source »

Peter Reilly was both the victim and the beneficiary of a small New England village's behavior. Living in an unheated shack with his mother, an educated alcoholic and lesbian, and surviving on welfare checks and the regular gifts of one of his mother's former lovers, the teenage boy stood out in alls Village, Conn., as a likeable object of pity and concern...

Author: By Michael Kendall, | Title: Juvenile Injustice | 11/15/1977 | See Source »

...developed no homicidal tendencies. Both Marina and Lee, however, were infantile and dependent. Once married, they provoked each other in a classic case of folie a deux. In bed, Marina put Lee down mercilessly for his premature ejaculations and deliberately aroused his pathological jealousy by praising her past boy friends or her current pinups. One of Marina's revelations to McMillan is that she provoked Lee's fury with talk of her sexual attraction for Kennedy. It may well have been one reason why Lee's free-floating rage finally settled on the President. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Making of an Assassin | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

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