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...gospel and folk tunes, and shakes hands with the regulars at the end of a swing. But at every stop, the journalists are faced with a candidate's standard speech, the same jokes, the same badinage, and must try to turn them into news. As ABC Correspondent Brit Hume joshed to Mondale's press secretary Maxine Isaacs after a blur of indistinguishable events: "We regulars have had our excitement threshold lowered." Like the White House beat, to which it is often a steppingstone, campaign coverage is one of the most coveted and also one of the most confining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The View from the Bus | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

Doris Lessing: There hasn't been a woman since Nelly Sachs shared the loot with Agnon in '66' There hasn't been a Brit since, catch this. Sir Winston Churchill of the "Narrzi Beast" fame won it is '53, A couple of things have Doris on the rocks, 1, The Times ran a story in its magazine on here during the summer. That's more a kiss of death than appearing on the cover of SI. 2, Leasing's latest books are sci-fi, and it the committee wants that, well they just ought to was till my man Isaac...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: The Alfred Stakes | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

...that Lilly could not have known about the 28 British deaths that occurred prior to the drug's U.S. approval in April. Indeed, accounts of some deaths from liver disease, all among the elderly, were reported to the government in late 1981 and appeared in the Brit ish Medical Journal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: High Cost of Arthritis Relief | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

...official. "We can sign a treaty with Great Britain, the enemy, and it will be over. But what do we do about the U.S., supposedly our friend? We are betrayed. Things will never be the same again." Reagan, an Argentine military officer complained privately last week, is just "a Brit in U.S. clothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falkland Islands: Caught in the Fallout | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...BOSTON'S fashionable Beacon Hill, in front of the home of Her Majesty's consul, a half-dozen old men and a young woman, all from Southie, walk in a circle twelve feet wide, carrying signs. 'Elize Brit--Queen of Death.' It's a terrifically hot afternoon, and there are frequent stops so the marchers can rest in the shade. But they've been there since midnight; they'll stay till midnight comes again...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Few Who Cared | 7/17/1981 | See Source »

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