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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Presiding over this curious series of public presentations was the prime proponent of the Administration's us-vs.-them world view, Secretary of State Alexander Haig. "This situation is global in character," he told a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee last week. "The problem is worldwide Soviet interventionism that poses an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: A Lot of Show, but No Tell | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

As CBS gears up to battle ABC News by co-opting some of its flashy style, NBC News is hoping to win new viewers the old-fashioned way with Reuven Frank. Frank, who spent the past few years exiled to the twelfth floor at NBC, known as the elephant graveyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Battle in Network News | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

The Big Apple Circus is different: it has only one ring, two clowns, 14 acrobats and aerialists, one horse, one pony, one elephant - and no dogs or lions at all. What it does have is enthusiasm, charm and the friendliness of the small scale. "This is the maximum size I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Large Delights Under a Little Top | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

Most of the acts are of a homier nature, however; their aim is to charm rather than amaze. Tarra the elephant plays a harmonica, hits a tambourine and dances atop a stool on two front feet; the Bertinis do figure eights and other intricate maneuvers on unicycles; and the two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Large Delights Under a Little Top | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

"I'm an investigative reporter," says Horowitz, 43, a former NBC News correspondent. "Our show is basically the opposite end of what they do on Madison Avenue. Fewer and fewer people believe commercials-with good reason." The Tonka Toy Co. ran an ad that showed one of its toy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Fighting Back | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

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