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Young Nam, a North Korean preschooler, has a problem: he cannot bring himself to shoot at American G.I. target dummies during kindergarten practice. He loses sleep at nap time, brooding over his failure. Nam has every reason to learn to kill the Yankees, his teacher tells him, since they force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hating G.l.s Is Child's Play | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

White House officials were surprised at Haig's surprise about the Bush assignment. Said one aide: "Hell, if he was so concerned, why didn't he pick up the phone and call one of us and ask what's going on?" More important, they were angry that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble on the Team | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

Charlotte Laurier plays Manon--a brilliant, brooding, exquisite, precocious little girl with saucer eyes, dark peekaboo bangs and an overfull heart--so letter perfectly that the actress cannot be separated from the role. Laurier is Manon: a terrible angel of a devil, hungry for something she can neither identify nor...

Author: By Debra K. Holmes, | Title: Loose Morality | 4/2/1981 | See Source »

Chevreul's point is made splendidly and often in After Daguerre: Masterworks of French Photography, a show transplanted from the Petit Palais in Paris to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. There is still a tendency to think of photography mainly as a 20th century phenomenon, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: The Sense of a Magic New Gift | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

Reagan's audience, estimated at 150,000, stretched far down Capitol Hill, past the brooding statue of Ulysses S. Grant, past the edge of the great Reflecting Pool. Directly in front of the podium was a huge tiered platform for the instruments of Reagan's true audience: millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran Hostages: America's Incredible Day | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

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