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...This ceaseless barrage adds up to a staggering figure: $22.1 million. As of October 17, Helms had raised $13.7 million and Hunt had raised $8.4 million, easily breaking all previous Senate campaign spending records. Cumulatively, they have spent about $7 per registered voter--enough to pay the salaries of all 100 U.S. Senators for nearly three years...

Author: By Ben Sherwood, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Good vs. Evil | 11/3/1984 | See Source »

...sign on to the nuke freeze or other disarmament efforts. Their appeal is made directly to our consciences Children are held to see through the "nonsense" of the arms race, and understanding their minds, the reasoning goes, allows us to see more clearly the folly of the ceaseless weapons buildup...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Playing Politics With Your Mind | 10/6/1984 | See Source »

...ceaseless scurrying would tax anyone. The more ineffable pressures the candidates face, to regain or maintain momentum, to remain intellectually focused but not rigid, are at least as burdensome. Frequent high-stakes televised debates (eight so far) have been an extra drain on emotional resources. "The debates are particularly difficult," says Oliver ("Pudge") Henkel, Hart's campaign manager. "It's a major change of pace from the rest of the campaign. It is so intense that there's invariably a letdown afterward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing the Fatigue Factor | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

...passages are in the details: how the generalized bagginess of a trouser leg, for instance, rendered in flat, thin paint and firmed up with swift daubs of darker tone in the folds, contrasts with the thick, creamy white directional brush strokes that model the curve of a spat. The ceaseless, intelligent play of flat and round, thick and thin, "slow" and "fast" passages of paint is what gives Manet's surface its probing liveliness. There is nothing "miraculous" about it, but it was not the result of a mechanically acquired technique either. It is there because, in his best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Most Parisian of Them All | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

...line of work.) Married, one baby, one stepson. Summers: 40, and gets ragged about it. Loves Django Reinhardt, reggae, ska and photography. Divorced; likes to talk about his sex life. Sting: 31, born Gordon Matthew Sumner. Grew up in Wallsend, England. Bass player. Various accounts origin of nickname: ceaseless buzzing energy; onetime habit of wearing black-and-yellow striped sweaters. Discovered by Copeland playing a gig with "a couple of old jazzers" in a school classroom. Getting divorced (see Every Breath You Take); likes to talk matters intellectual. Favorite music: Ralph Vaughan Williams' Symphony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Official Police Business | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

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