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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paper offers offbeat trend stories, like a report last week that laboratories have, for financial rather than humanitarian reasons, cut back testing on animals, but most of the news in USA Today is not reported in depth. Indeed, President Reagan's State of the Union address was dismissed in four small stories, the longest of them just over 300 words; the New York Times gave the story most of three densely packed pages. Editor John Curley's once-over-lightly format has not changed much since the paper's first issue noted the assassination of Lebanese President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: McPaer Extends It's Franchise | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

...just for power. The author's careful research strips away the elaborate web of myth and half-truth that Johnson and his loyalists constructed to obscure his early life, evoking the heart-rending isolation and desperate poverty of his boyhood in the Hill Country of Texas. Through in-depth interviews with relatives and boyhood friends of the President, many of whom had never before talked with journalists or scholars. Caro create a picture of a boy seeking to escape early deprivations by any means possible--a young man obsessed with wheedling and cajoling his way into attention and influence...

Author: By Cecil D. Quillen, | Title: Another Power Broker | 2/5/1983 | See Source »

...Bercovich's Columbia colleagues, English Department chairman Martin Meisel, called his departure a "severe loss" for the university. "I have nothing but envy for Harvard," he said. "We fortunately have some depth in the field, but he is the sort of person who is irreplaceable...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Columbia Puritan Expert Accepts Harvard Tenure | 2/5/1983 | See Source »

This view is also shared within University Hall. Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, explains that if the council can shift its focus to include an in-depth approach to policy matters, it will likely play a more significant role "The best idea, the most well-researched ideas, will always win out at Harvard," Epps said...

Author: By Gilbert Fuchsberg, | Title: Council Working to Become Effective | 2/5/1983 | See Source »

...emphasis on theme and structure led him to cast Nelligan and Hirsen rather than actors with more star appeal. Both excel in their roles: Nelligan, especially, works with such intelligence that she seems constrained by Jaffe's low-key interpretation. The tautness of her motions often reveals the depth of her characterization. When she visits her husband in the hospital, after he is beat up in the course of the investigation, her otherwise highly poised muscles relax as she tells him a terrible joke. That one moment evokes the despurate need for affection behind their irreparable estrangement. Susan reaches...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Gone Astray | 2/4/1983 | See Source »

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