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He joined the undergraduate Republican Club but left after encountering what he calls "some unbelievably crooked politics for a silly little campus organization." Equally unattractive to Elliott was the small circle which produced the now apparently defunct Salient, a right-wing periodical. "I had a sense of approval that there...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Small Town Boy in the Big City | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

If Stratton was truly engaged in research, no one can fault his thoroughness. Before his arrest, he says, he spent time in the company of drug dealers from Latin America to Southeast Asia. At the start of the trial he told reporters, "It took me five years to penetrate the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Observer or Conspirator? | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

Steve Mahre finished third behind Phil and Stenmark in the World Cup standings last year. Hindered by a shoulder injury this season, he stood ninth last week. Having followed four minutes behind his brother 25 years ago, Steve says good-naturedly, "I've been trying to catch up ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: For Purple Mountains' Majesty | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

Each Monday, Thurman left her husband Jonathan David, a cinematograpner, in Manhattan to work 16-hour days in a Long Island cottage. There she subconsciously evoked a mood by wearing Dinesen's favorite perfume, Fracas. "It was eerie," she remembers. "The identification was very deep." Almost every line demonstrates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Raw Bones, Fire and Patience | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

Naylor's talent shows through this first work, much as one would imagine an art student's attempts to hang a master's painting. First, the frame is unsuitable; then the place on the wall seems ill-chosen. Finally, that's all fixed, but the whole is still slightly crooked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Street and Everywoman | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

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