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...same way that boxing promoters try to build a big gate. There is talk of keeping the pressure on, of pounding away at this issue or that, of drawing blood, even of scoring a knockout. In the debate itself, the candidates try to look and talk tough. Chest heaving and frowning become measures of character. Entrapment, humiliation, accusation and scorn rise above sympathy and understanding. The debates and their breathless aftermaths demand a winner. If there is none on first viewing, one will be created. One contender is expected to exult and preen, the other to scowl and slink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: The Big Fight Syndrome | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...thick blanket between us, and announced that we were ready to shoot." As the cameras moved in for a closeup, the director shouted: "Pull the quilt over your breast . . . Artem, don't touch her . . . Galina, your shoulder is bare again .. . Stop! Stop! His shirt is unbuttoned ... His chest is all hairy! Shave it immediately. We're making a film for the laboring masses, not for sex maniacs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Highs and Lows | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...COVER says it all. Or at least it appears to, on first glance. Just the throat to waist of a buxom teenage student in supertight tee shirt. Superimposed on her chest are the words" litters...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: What's the Message? | 10/24/1984 | See Source »

...hair is thick and wavy; his rolling gait has just a hint of swagger. Since Ronald Reagan became President, his chest has actually grown broader by three inches, thanks to his lifting weights. Posing for a photograph out at his ranch, he looks rangy and hale, an ageless cowboy. On a podium with waving flags and floating balloons, he can mesmerize and uplift. But when he speaks extemporaneously, the effect can be more halting than inspirational. He has long been notorious for bungling facts. He often mangles syntax. Somehow, with a quip or a smile, he usually manages to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Questions of Age and Competence | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

...chocolate syrup, while a bevy of young girls lobbed baseballs at the target for $3 a pop. After three splashdowns each in the high-calorie goo, the men were just too delicious for the girls to resist. Recalls Thomas: "They licked the chocolate off my hairy chest." For their lickerish female admirers, the idea of having a hunk of chocolate will never be the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 8, 1984 | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

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