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Breuning, 34, concedes that he was distracted by personal problems while some of his work was in progress but insists that the NIMH panel "did a shoddy, sloppy investigation." Now the director of psychological services at the Polk Center, in Polk, Pa., Breuning left the University of Pittsburgh in April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: It Was Too Good to Be True | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

Walton's hobbies always take a backseat to his company. He plays a fine game of tennis, but he reportedly can be easily distracted by canny opponents who bring up the topic of Wal-Mart. Another favorite pastime is quail hunting; Walton often takes his two pointer dogs along with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Make That Sale, Mr. Sam Wal-Mart's | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

One can almost hear the practiced seducer's rationalization: "What's the harm? Everyone got what they wanted, didn't they?" Heaven help us; it's close to being true. May, whose painstaking ways and modest grosses do not usually commend her to the studios, gets to work in something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: They Got What They Wanted ISHTAR | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

Well, sure. What we have here is middle age, a ton of bricks anywhere, but a real stunner to Duane in Thalia, Texas. Life and geography have not prepared him for the existential blahs. He was a high school football hero of sorts in McMurtry's wry 1966 novel The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After The Last Picture Show TEXASVILLE | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

The reporter ditches Hillela in Dar es Salaam, which has become an important port of call for exiled members of the African National Congress. She has neither ambition nor money, no currency at all except her formidable good looks. The expatriate conspirators, white and black, who gather each afternoon to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life in The Territory of Exile A SPORT OF NATURE | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

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