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...America during the President's tenure have been the Cuban and Soviet proxies ready to eat up our allies; these fears have been played up only because of the Administration's single-minded devotion to force and bluster as the lynchpins of its policy in the region. The Republicans brag that under their government "not one square inch" of territory has been lost to the Commies, but if they pursue their current course, they will more likely end up squandering their rapidly diminishing influence in the area...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whither Moderation? | 10/20/1984 | See Source »

...brought wit, intelligence and self-effacing humor to auto advertising, up to then dour and staid. One featured the line "Think small," which was heresy in the days when Detroit was building gigantic gas guzzlers. Another showed a VW partially submerged in water, and proud owners began to brag, "It floats." In 1969, in celebration of the first U.S. manned moon landing, VW ran a picture of the lunar-excursion module with the caption: "It's ugly, but it gets you there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinking Small and Winning Big | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...Greene writes in Dallas USA, "the old Big D arrogance was gone for years, drained away by attacks against which no defense was allowed. If someone reads Dallas newspapers of the seventies, for instance, it will be found that few local columnists ever displayed the old Dallas, or Texas, Brag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing Off for the G.O.P. | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

Burton loved to brag about how much he could drink, but his bouts with booze caused Taylor to divorce him in 1974. Fourteen months later they remarried in Botswana, with two rhinos and a hippo among the witnesses; but a second divorce soon followed. He married, divorced and married again. His fourth wife Sally was with him last week when he was stricken at their modest villa in the Swiss village of Céligny, where, dressed in red, the Welsh national color, he was also buried. The services included the familiar words of Dylan Thomas and the strains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Mellifluous Prince of Disorder | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...short, Lee seems uncomfortable with the subject--he can't decide whether to brag about or apologize for his skirt chasing...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: High and Way Outside | 7/20/1984 | See Source »

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