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Presumably, the public has made it a box-office sellout in the titillating hope that it is a keyhole drama. Sad to say, Liz and Dick are almost as inept at playing themselves as they are at re-creating Coward's characters. All passion spent, they seem blankly disaffected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: King Midas Calls the Tune | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

In the debate over U.S. policy in Central America, one of the Reagan Administration's biggest problems has been to make a successful case that there is any kind of superpower meddling in the stricken region-any meddling, that is, aside from its own. Congressmen have leaped quickly upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: Like a Sears, Roebuck Catalogue: | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

"It is not granted to the hipster to grow old gracefully," Mailer wrote in his middle 30s, and there certainly did not, at the time, appear to be a silver-haired patriarch in the author's future. Mailer is now a proud, picture-packing papa, ready to draw his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Impish Iconoclast at 60 | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

Whatever the level of the fighting in the Nicaraguan countryside, there could be little doubt that the Reagan Administration was in some way involved. One of the worst-kept secrets in Central America is that the U.S. has been helping to arm and aid some of the Sandinistas' most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: Nicaragua's Elusive War | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

President Reagan promises to use the appointment of a new Transportation Secretary to "make peace" with liberal and minority groups disaffected with his policies. "What I'm really looking for is a Black, handicapped, elderly nun who's been cut from food stamps and is anti-muke and pro-environment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Only in America...' | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

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