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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Enter the handsome aviator (Peter Coffield) and his passenger, the daredevil Polish acrobat Lina Szczepanowska (Patricia Elliott), Shaw's totally liberated New Woman. The third unexpected guest comes wielding a revolver. Gunner (Anthony Heald) proves to be Tarleton's illegitimate son, bent on revenge. This gives Shaw a chance to play the dialectical game of cat-and-mouse. Inevitably, Hypatia gets the aviator to chase her till she catches him. "Papa, buy the brute for me," she purrs to Tarleton. Papa does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Imp of Paradox | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...wake of Theodore Sr. was his adoring wife Martha, a Southern belle who conveyed into middle age the voice of flute song, the fragrance of blue violets. Besides Teddy, known as "Teedie," there were three other children, all equipped with their own preppie nicknames: Anna, known as "Bamie," Elliott, known as "Ellie," and Corinne, known as "Conie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Foolish Grit | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...self-improvement and relentless selfdiscipline, McCullough finds something spoiled about the prig who talks of keeping himself "pure," for some "rare and radiant maiden" and postures for the camera as "the plainsman" in custom-tailored buckskins with dagger and sheath from Tiffany. The author appears to prefer Black Sheep Elliott, who, lacking what he called his brother's "foolish grit," collapsed under the responsibility of being a Roosevelt, although surviving long enough to father Eleanor, the wife-to-be of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, before dying an alcoholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Foolish Grit | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...guidelines acceptable. Then, after months of lobbying by the three U.S. formula makers and the Grocery Manufacturers of America, an interagency task force recommended that the U.S. discreetly abstain on the WHO code. Yet days before the ballot, word came down from the White House to vote no. Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, declared that U.S. aid programs would continue to encourage breast feeding, but that the WHO limit on infant-formula advertising "has grave constitutional problems for us-we couldn't adopt it here at home, and we couldn't recommend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle of the Bottle: In Geneva it was the U.S. against the world | 6/1/1981 | See Source »

...much of the world that he had shattered a taboo that even assassins should observe. Nearly everyone repeated the question that the wounded Pope himself had asked: "Why did they do it?" To shoot at politicians may have become lamentably routine, but, as Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau said: "One must wonder whether our world has become so barbaric that it is incapable of respecting the lives of God's own messengers of peace." It was hardly the first time it has happened, of course. After a militant Hindu nationalist shot down Mahatma Gandhi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hand of Terrorism | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

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