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Buchanan took that as a cue to continue his crusade. In a TV interview he elaborated on the President's joke and attributed it to "one guy at the White House." Said Buchanan: "Ronald Reagan and Ed Meese are the Woodward and Bernstein of this. They ought to get the Pulitzer Prize." At a Miami rally of some 3,000 Cuban Americans that night, he heated up his rhetoric. "If Colonel North ripped off the Ayatullah and took $30 million and gave it to the contras," he declared, "then God bless Colonel North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making It Us Vs. Them | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...CASTLE is the fairyland-like zenith of Disneyland. Since my Anaheim Hilton was in the Castle's shadow, I was using it as a cue to sanctuary...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Magical Mystery Tour | 12/13/1986 | See Source »

...Group Lotus, the maker of rakish sports cars, this year. But as cars and auto factories become more electronic, GM's space-age alliances could help the company pass its competition. Indeed, none of GM's rivals have taken the giant's poor third-quarter performance as a cue to throttle back. "It's a fluke," says Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca. "I know GM, and I'm sure they'll straighten it out as quickly as they know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: General Motors a Giant Stalls, Then Revs Its Engines | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

...significant not so much as a demonstration of virtuoso genetic engineering, but because it will provide scientists with a valuable research tool for studying how genes go about their business. By fusing the firefly gene to the genetic material of other plants and animals, biologists gain a visual cue $ that will help them understand in detail how genes -- strands of DNA whose structure acts as a sort of coded instruction manual -- tell different cells what their duties are within an organism. Armed with such specific knowledge, researchers may someday understand exactly why these instructions are occasionally garbled and, perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Of Fireflies and Tobacco Plants | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...this is our final run-through for The New Discipline. We're going to list our top options for different kinds of disciplinary problems, for the benefit of the Big Guy here. Are the cue cards ready? What about the anatomically correct dolls...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: The Lords of Discipline | 11/13/1986 | See Source »

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