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...Split in Denver, by Bob's Famous in Washington, D.C., or by Gelato in San Francisco. Nonsense, says a newcomer to the discussion, which started as a modest watercooler filibuster and has quickly become an anarchic mob scene. If you believe such claims it is because-you poor, butter-fat-starved, crushed-strawberry-and fresh-peach-and Oreo-mint-deficient ignoramous-you have never laid tongue to a rich, chewy, almost dripping sugar-cone full of sinfully delightful ice cream made by the enchanted trolls of Robert's in Southampton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice Cream: They All Scream for It | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

Foremost among them is a sick economy, currently groaning under a $27 billion foreign debt and a projected drop of 15% in national income for 1981. Wages have risen 20% in the past year, but there are far less consumer goods to buy. Meat, butter, sugar and cereals have been rationed for months, and still the queues grow longer. In Silesia, some miners reportedly have fainted because of malnutrition, and doctors report more ailments linked to poor diets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: A Flowering of Democracy | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

...film lurches from one battle scene to the next with little substance in between. Most of the problem can be attributed to Peter MacNicol's peanut butter-on-milquetoast portrayal of the would-be hero. Tireless in an irritating way, MacNicol inspires little interest in his quest; he never seems the least bit ambivalent about clambering down into murky caves and facing off against the 50-foot lizard who has just torched the whole kingdom with a few sneezes. As a lover, he is tepid at best, remaining oblivious even when his ladyfriend mentions at one point that...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Puff the Magic | 7/10/1981 | See Source »

...argument. Reduced defense spending, for instance, holds great appeal to liberals who see more money for social programs. And though Fallows might agree, he is silent on the issue, for such talk infuriates the right, already convinced as it is that too many guns have been sacrificed for butter. His attempt to stick to the issues at hand, though, is in the end unpersuasive, for there are too many questions that need answering first. Americans of conscience will always predicate support for the military on the belief that the nation's might will be used wisely, not immorally squandered. When...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Price of Defense | 7/10/1981 | See Source »

Even if the White House succeeds in whittling down the price-support system, the Agriculture Department will still be stuck with the mountains of butter, cheese and dry milk that it already owns. Secretary of Agriculture John Block wants authority to unload some of the Government's butter on world markets at a competitive price before it turns rancid. But Secretary of State Alexander Haig worries lest any additional butter on the world market be bought up by the Soviet Union. Now that the Government has lifted its grain embargo to the U.S.S.R., Haig seems to be saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buttering Up the Farmers | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

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