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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cover stories-Computers were once regarded as distant, ominous abstractions, like Big Brother. In 1982 they truly became personalized brought down to scale, so that people could hold, prod and play with them." Golden often writes his own stories at home on a TRS-80 Model III; another cover contributor, Computers Section Writer Philip Faflick, works on an Apple II Plus in his apartment. Indeed, by October 1983, the entire TIME editorial operation will be using the latest generation of word processors...
...compelling TV personalities. Nixon was excellent on radio. L.B.J. was an overwhehning persuader close in, a gripper of elbows, clutcher of lapels. We have not had high presidential eloquence since Ted Sorensen was writing for J.F.K., though Ford (speechwriter: Robert Hartmann) came close at times, and Reagan, a heavy contributor to his own speeches, can be forceful and moving. The arts of presidential communicating should also include a sense of when to keep quiet. No recent outstanding examples...
...Contributor John Skow, who wrote this week's cover story, regards popcorn and Paul Newman as inseparable, twin treasures of the moviehouse. Skow was nonetheless surprised to find himself sitting in an office of Newman's Salad King Inc. as the actor blithely demonstrated his definitive technique for buttering popcorn. Recalls Skow: "He wielded his knife at a precisely calculated angle, wriggled it meticulously while splashing droplets of butter on everything in sight, and then invited me to try it." Sampling two brands of popcorn that Newman hoped to market, Skow and his host rejected both. "One option...
...life in Rhode Island, last week got up the nerve to indulge a growing political suspicion. To raise funds, he held a nonevent. For $25 a supporter could stay home. For $35 he or she received an autographed copy of the speech Chafee did not deliver. For $40 the contributor was excused from reading it. The hopeless political junkie with $75 to give was invited to a chicken dinner - in his own home, the chicken sent in from Colonel Sanders'. For $150 the Senator and his wife dined with the donors, and a tape of the speech was played...
...give $5,000 to both a candidate's primary and general election campaigns, while an individual contributor can give only $1,000 to each. Presidential elections are financed by federal funds, so most of the money is channeled into congressional, state and local races. Since PACs tend to run in packs, a popular candidate, particularly a powerful incumbent, may raise more than half his war chest from these