Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course of a long presidential election campaign a chosen few journalists enjoy the opportunity of watching candidates go through their dawn-to-dusk schedules from a claustrophobic range. Last week in Waco, Texas, TIME Photographer Arthur Grace was reminded that the candidates get a good chance to watch journalists too. As he posed for the accompanying picture with Jimmy Carter and Correspondent Christopher Ogden, Grace was surprised to hear the President call him his "secret adviser." Added Carter: "Whenever I speak, I look to you to see if you're going to give me the thumbs up or down...
...most visible sign of how the war has affected the Iranian capital of Tehran is the disappearance of the maddening, noxious traffic jams that once clogged the city from dawn to dusk. As a result of gasoline rationing and restrictions on privately owned cars, taxis and buses travel at speeds previously unimaginable. Said Abbas Tavakkol, 38, a taxi driver: "It's wonderful. I wish gasoline rationing and the ban on private driving remain in force forever." Retorted his passenger, an elderly man pressing an attaché case against his breast: "It is a good thing God does not grant...
...chased Pancho Villa across Mexico. The horses were replaced by tanks in 1942, but a certain amount of cavalry elan persists. Thoughts of home and work are replaced by simpler concerns -food, a cigarette, a breakdown ahead. Vocabularies slide easily into the four-letter Anglo-Saxon mode. At dusk, when the group rolls into Fort Drum, the barracks area is like a class reunion as men greet one another after a year apart...
...modern presidency, compared with Lincoln's day, and flashes through scenes of Carter with the Emperor of Japan, Pope John Paul II, Israel's Menachem Begin and Egypt's Anwar Sadat. The five-minute film ends with a weary Carter returning to the White House at dusk to work on into the night. Finally, a lonely light burns in the President's study, and the announcer says, "He's not finished yet." What the viewer is supposed to wonder, of course, is whether Reagan, who will be 70 in February, could handle the load...
...meaning is clear. But after a few sleepless weeks, Clem forgets to worry. Authorities find his body lying in a ditch near his overturned jeep. A razorsharp wire strung between a tree and a telephone pole has severed his head as Clem drove down his ranch road at dusk...