Word: contributors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unscrupulous practices, you simply do not have the political experience necessary to draw the line between morality and prison. The "political realities of fund-raising," Agnew thoughtfully explains, include the following: Campaign money comes "mainly from people who made money out of being politically 'in'." Furthermore, a pesky contributor "always wanted to give the money to you personally, so he was sure that you knew he was helping you." And, Agnew explains, "he usually gave it in cash," on which "he had probably not paid taxes." Anyway, the donor almost surely knew that "in every campaign there was a great...
...report calls for a gasoline tax of 30 to 50 cents a gallon which would rise by ten cents every year until the tax reached one dollar per gallon, Bill Chandler, a director at the Environmental Policy Institute of Washington, D.C. and a contributor to the report, said yesterday...
Just before Jimmy Carter met last week with auto industry leaders, TIME Contributor John Skow received a phone call from his friend Featherless, the pundit who wants the Democrats to nominate Franklin Delano Roosevelt and argues that, given the rest of the field, no one will notice that he is dead. Featherless had an equally practical proposal for solving two economic problems-the nation...
...people and landmarks are gone now; so many early films have literally turned to dust. Brownlow holds that the advent of sound robbed movies of their power to stimulate the viewers' imaginations: once the audience no longer had to imagine voices, it ceased to be an active "creative contributor to the process of making a film." Hollywood: The Pioneers offers powerful support for that belief, including a 1928 photo that draws the curtain on an adventurous, fatally innocent era: as a group of bored technicians look on MGM's fabled trademark, Leo the lion, roars into a microphone...
...this largesse goes to little effect. Said one designer: "Many of [the reporters] seem to have an almost psychological resistance to personal elegance. It is almost as if they were proclaiming their superiority to this frivolous business." But designers and dragons alike could derive some inspiration from Anna Piaggi, contributor to both the French and Italian Vogue, who showed up one day with a large velvet reproduction of an art deco vase perched on her head. Piaggi's Milan millinery was pretty tame stuff compared with her headdress in Paris two years ago: a basket brimming with shrimp...