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...advisers, Reagan is running again for the simplest of reasons: he believes in what he is doing, he likes his job, and he does not see anything else he could do that would be remotely as interesting. The President often seems surprisingly uninformed about the details of policy and content to follow the consensus of his staff (see following story). Nonetheless, he is dedicated to his conservative principles and feels personal as well as ideological satisfaction in putting them into effect. "Here's a guy who for 25 years has been fighting the Communists with words," says one adviser...
...should TIME react to such a richness of events? The magazine's answer: a "bonus" for TIME'S readers of up to 100 color-filled extra pages of editorial content specifically directed to 1984's very special demands. With these additional capabilities, which will cost nearly $2 million, TIME will be taking an unprecedented step toward giving its readers the dramatic detail and pictorial splendor that are a vital part of the events that define our interests and shape our times. TIME'S new bonus approach to big news will be used for two Winter Olympics...
...good a director to content himself with mere mannerism. In adapting Charles Williams' 1962 thriller The Long Saturday Night, he and his co-writers have done more than change the setting from Alabama to the Cote d'Azur...
They have also shifted the balance of the narrative. The central figure is no longer the male victim of a plot to make him take the rap for several murders. In the role of this unlucky real estate agent, Jean-Louis Trintignant must content himself with moping about and rather churlishly criticizing the brisk, brave and far-darting efforts of Barbara, his secretary, to clear his name. It is a disciplined, selfless performance...
...method of redressing past discrimination and against the use of busing as the last alternative to segregation. It also made its "top priority" a proposed study of the effects of affirmative action programs on Americans of Eastern and Southern European descent. More disturbing than these actions' political content, though, is the way the group simply parroted the Administration's position--without long deliberations or the independent research its staff of 250 is supposed to provide...