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Although the appointment of Jordan was greeted with widespread skepticism outside the White House, those closest to Carter welcomed the move. Said Congressional Liaison Chief Frank Moore: "It's great. We needed it. You can already tell the difference. Procedures are crisper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Here Comes Mr. Jordan | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

Such pathology cannot be explained through quick-cut cinema verite. The pro gram's power rests not in analysis but in immediacy. The footage seems to have been shot in the fly-on-the-wall manner of Film Maker Frederick Wiseman, but the editing is both jumpier and crisper than in Wiseman's works. In one se quence, the camera pans up an icicle-festooned stairwell inside a Newark tenement, enters an apartment squalid beyond words and comes to rest on an infant cooing over its bottle. No one states the obvious: that child will never have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: No Limits | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

Harvard was aggressive against UMass but they threw away 30 turnovers. Passing must be crisper and more confident...

Author: By Peter R. Reynolds, | Title: BASKETBALL VS. BOSTON COLLEGE | 12/3/1977 | See Source »

...happen so fast in a race. You haven't got the luxury of time." Still, North seems to have settled down in recent weeks, and the crew is, at last, becoming cohesive: Enterprise's execution, marked by sloppiness and uncertainty in the early going, has become much crisper and quicker. As a result, during July Enterprise won seven races for an overall match record so far of eleven wins and twelve losses to Courageous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mouth of the South' at the Helm | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

...grotesque aspect of all war that it becomes a sort of chess game in a charnel house. At week's end Nixon, as if to find a brief respite in a crisper tradition, flew to Camp Pendleton, Calif., to welcome home the 1st Marine Division after five years of bloody fighting. Acrid white smoke rose over the parade grounds from a 21-gun salute. Nixon, thoughtful and obviously proud, pinned a presidential combat citation on the unit colors. "We are not going to fail," he told the Marines. "We shall succeed." Later he issued a word of warning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Chess of Ending a War | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

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