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Times and priorities change. It's disconcerting to the environmentalist to hear the author of This Land Is Your Land sounding like a booster from Houston with a pump jack for a metronome. But the Depression was then. This is now. Political correctness is addicted to committing the sin of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Land Is Whose Land? | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

So it went. (I am harvesting this material from a new biography, "An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland," by H. Paul Jeffers, and from Paul F. Boller, Jr.'s "Presidential Campaigns"). Cleveland was accused of draft-dodging during the Civil War. Blaine got identified with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aaah! When Campaigns Were Really Dirty | 6/12/2000 | See Source »

With his bow tie, manicured beard, debaucher's lips and a forehead that recedes in disapproving furrows almost to the collar line, Paul Bartel looks like the last surviving member of the Preston Sturges Repertory Company. Sturges, whose spitball farces (The Lady Eve, The Miracle of Morgan's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Souffle Surrealism | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

Billed as "Hollywood's newest heartthrob," hawk-faced Vittorio Gassman makes himself thoroughly despicable as Anna's chief debaucher. Raf Valone is the straight man who loves Anna for something besides the obvious. Jaques Dumesnil, playing an elderly surgeon-philosopher, and Patrizia Mangano, Silvana's sister, fill out a competent...

Author: By E. H. Harvey, | Title: Anna | 3/14/1953 | See Source »

World Citizen Garry Davis, 26, was getting the kind of personal attention from Moscow that is usually reserved especially for bigwigs. "American debaucher and maniac," squawked Pravda, "a prophet of the World Government idea, exported from the U.S. to Europe, along with powdered eggs and gangster novels."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 16, 1949 | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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