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...idea struck a responsive chord among TIME'S editors in New York City, particularly Associate Editor Claudia Wallis, our Medicine writer. She had been interested in the subject ever since 1978, when she experienced the anguish of surgery for a fractured kneecap. The result is this week's cover story, which was written by Wallis and contributed to by Reporter-Researcher Mary Carpenter...
...SMOG of international political idiocy descends upon the Los Angeles Olympics, cries have arisen that it's time to extinguish. Baron de Coubertin's torch once and for all. Such arguments strike an increasingly responsive chord, indeed, the last Games to be left unscathed by the non-athletic tug of war between rival states took place in 1968. Since then, we've seen the massacre of 11 Israelis in Munich, the African boycott of Montreal, the U.S. no-show in Moscow, and now, the big nyet from Chernenko and Co. Nor do prospects for the future look good...
...were to repeat the first statement two more times, that should undoubtedly convince all readers that I am lying. There is something about three times denial that strikes a chord in Americans. The same odd chord is struck with the thought of Communism, which is why I hastened to add the second statement...
...Gabriel/Anderson collaboration, "Excellent Birds," is the only major mistake on this album. With its obvious, snappy chord changes, its overwrought vocals, its melody which sounds like something off of Security, and its pointless lyrics fashioned in the David Byrre made, this song indicates what could have happened in the whole album had Anderson limited her African influences to very surface surface level...
...Jesse L. Jackson, who seems to have struck a chord with New Hampshire voters with his stirring rhetoric, spoke to students at St. Anselm's College, where all eight Democratic candidates will debate tonight...