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...troubles of America would be blamed on him, pinned to his purple cloak. But there they would disappear in the glare of the royal, Reagan glow. A Teflon King makes a great scapegoat...

Author: By John B. Waumbk, | Title: Birthday Wishes | 2/6/1985 | See Source »

...UNIVERSITY has formally recognized the practice of awarding credit for NROTC courses taken at MIT. The majority opinion attempts to cloak the obvious significance of this act by dismissing it as a legitimization of de facto policy. But any step of this kind, no matter how small, implicitly endorses the program and brings it one step closer to campus...

Author: By D. JOSEPH Menn, | Title: No Butchery | 2/5/1985 | See Source »

...organizing families deprive people of old models of authority which, while inadequate, provided a resting place on the road to maturity. Therapy is being used, Lasch argues, not to help but to confuse and to take advantage of people; in the workplace, especially, psychological legerdemain is used to cloak management's lack of substantive responses to the needs of working people...

Author: By John P.O Connor, | Title: Notes From Blunder ground | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

Just one day before Miller was arrested, federal authorities nabbed two other suspects in unrelated, but equally intriguing, cloak-and-dagger cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spy vs. Spy Saga | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

...outset, director Baker craftily disguises the plot beneath the cloak of family tragedy. Jennifer (Meg Tilly), a small town ballerina, has gone to study dance in New York, where she meets her soon-to-be boyfriend Stuart (Tim Matheson). Stuart is a cultured yuppie finishing up his medical residency. Yet no sooner do Jennifer and Stuart become involved, than Jennifer's mother discovers the romance, and during an accusatory phone call, shoots herself. Jennifer and Stuart race home to the rural Midwestern town where Jennifer's mother lives, and the plot quickly takes on a surreal glaze...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: Taking the Lid Off the Id | 10/9/1984 | See Source »

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